Question

What combination of elements helps portray the pleasures of winter in these lines from the poem?


Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love

A) The word choice, sound, and imagery emphasize gentleness.
B) The “waxen lights” contrast with the sweetness of “honey love.”
C) The references to golden colors echo the comforts of winter.
D) The rhythm creates a sense of languor characteristic of winter.


Now Winter Night's Enlarge
by Thomas Campion

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Answer 1

Now Winter Night's Enlarge
by Thomas Campion

Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-turned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep's leaden spells remove.

This time doth well dispense
With lovers' long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well;
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

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