Chapter 8: Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas
Lab Activity 38: Implied Main Ideas in Literature
 
Objective
To use supporting details to determine the implied main idea in literature.

arrow.gifStep 2: Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow it.

How Annandale Went Out

By Edwin Arlington Robinsion

"They called it Annandale—and I was there
To flourish, to find words, and to attend:
Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend,
I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I had seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend—
A wreck, with hell between him and the end,
Remained of Annandale; and I was there.
I knew the ruin as I knew the man;
So put the two together, if you can,
Remembering the worst you know of me.
Now view yourself as I was, on the spot—
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this. . . . You wouldn't hang me? I thought not."

—From The Town Down the River. Copyright 1910 by Charles Scribner's Sons; renewal copyright 1938 by Ruth Nivison.


      6. The poem is in quotation marks because it is  

 
 
 
 
      7. Who or what is Annandale? 

 
 
 
 
      8. To whom does the speaker refer when he says, "Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend"? 

 
 
 
 
      9. "With slight kind of engine" refers to a  

 
 
 
 
      10. The speaker is narrating a time when he  

 
 
 
 





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