Question # 1: "The Poem Term Paper

Total Length: 406 words ( 1 double-spaced pages)

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Obviously, some kind of
intense action is taking place in the narrative along with music ("What
struggle to escape?" "What pipes and timbrels?" "What wild ecstasy?"),
perhaps some type of a festival or religious celebration or possibly a
sexual orgy.
The second scene (lines 11-30) begins with more music ("Ye soft
pipes, play on") while some "fair" youths, perhaps blonde-haired like the
original Greeks, sit beneath some trees. Line 22 indicates that the
narrative is occurring in the spring ("Nor ever bid the Spring adieu"); the
remaining lines indicate once again some kind of amoral celebration, such
as youths, both male and female, enjoying a sexual tryst beneath the trees
in Arcadia.

The third scene (lines 31-40) clearly indicates that the narrative is
indeed a religious celebration ("coming to the sacrifice," "green altar"
"mysterious priest") and that the sacrifice for this heathen celebration is
a "heifer" or a young cow. The final lines indicate that a town or village
is in the distance, all emptied of its people in order to attend the
sacrifice, being a religious act to please or temper the anger of the gods.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Vol.….....

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