Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two texts in this excerpt from the poem "Dreams" by Edgar Allan Poe use enjambment?
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
1. My spirit not awakening, till the beam
2. Of waking life, to him whose heart must be
The two texts that use enjambment in this excerpt are:
1. "My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow."
2. "'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,"
To find the correct texts in this passage that use enjambment, we need to understand what enjambment is. Enjambment is a literary technique where a sentence or phrase continues onto the next line of poetry without a pause or punctuation.
Looking at the passage, we can see that enjambment is used in two instances:
1. "My spirit not awakening, till the beam / Of an Eternity should bring the morrow."
2. "'Twere better than the cold reality / Of waking life, to him whose heart must be."
In both cases, the thought or sentence flows from one line to the next without a break, creating a continuation of ideas. These are the two texts in the passage that use enjambment.