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  1. Poonam Sharma
    Poonam Sharma literarian

    In the poem, For Anne Gregory, the poet is an experienced man while Anne is young, innocent and ignorant of world and the demands of world. Hence she desires to be loved for her inner beauty. However when she says that she will dye her hair with some else colour, it becomes obvious that she will notRead more

    In the poem, For Anne Gregory, the poet is an experienced man while Anne is young, innocent and ignorant of world and the demands of world. Hence she desires to be loved for her inner beauty.

    However when she says that she will dye her hair with some else colour, it becomes obvious that she will not look beautiful without them. The poet (in the final part) also says that only God loves a person for his/her inner beauty. This line again justifies that Anne will not look beautiful without her golden hair.

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  1. Poonam Sharma
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    The rhyme scheme of the poem For Anne Gregory is ABCBDBEBFB and so on. In the poem, the end word of 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and so on rhyme with each other e.g. despair, ear, hair, there, despair, hair, declare, dear, hair. All of them rhyme with each other. Read summary of this poem.

    The rhyme scheme of the poem For Anne Gregory is ABCBDBEBFB and so on. In the poem, the end word of 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and so on rhyme with each other

    e.g. despair, ear, hair, there, despair, hair, declare, dear, hair. All of them rhyme with each other.

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  1. Poonam Sharma
    Poonam Sharma literarian

    The central idea of the poem For Anne Gregory is that humans on earth love the outer beauty of everything (here women). They appreciate what seems beautiful to their eyes. So, there is a partial way of beauty. e.g. a person with fair skin will be considered as beautiful though he may be bad in actioRead more

    The central idea of the poem For Anne Gregory is that humans on earth love the outer beauty of everything (here women). They appreciate what seems beautiful to their eyes. So, there is a partial way of beauty. e.g. a person with fair skin will be considered as beautiful though he may be bad in actions. On the other hand, a black person will always be considered as inferior though he may be good at heart.

    In the poem, little Anne who is innocent and not well aware of idea of beauty in world. She desires to be loved for her soul which is beautiful. However the poet tells her that people on earth will love her because of her golden hair. Without them, no one is going to love her.

    Hearing this, she becomes sad. In order to cheer her up, the poet says that only God loves a person for his/her inner beauty and thus she should believe in God.

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