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What does the speaker fear?

How many times does the tone change throughout the poem?

A Hymn to God the Father

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1
How many times does the tone change throughout the poem?
3
2
0
1
2
What does the speaker fear?
Jesus
Forgetting about the importance of life
living with no purpose
Not being forgiven before his death
3
What does the "Shore" symbolize?
hell
purgatory
old age
god
4
In the final stanza what literary device does the author use?
synecdoche
Rhetorical question
Allusion
Pun
5
What is the Author referring to when he says "...that sin where I begun"
Misdeeds in his youth
His conception
The original sin
The crimes of his parents
6
Who is the speaker talking to?
his wife
God
himself
A Priest
7
How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem?
Optimistic
depressed
afraid of the future
apathetic