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- The Witch puts Dorothy to work in the kitchen and unsuccessfully tries to starve the Lion into submission. At one point, the Wicked Witch of the West tricks Dorothy and snatches one of Dorothy’s silver shoes. Angry, Dorothy throws water on her, which causes the Witch to melt.
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The Witch puts Dorothy to work in the kitchen and unsuccessfully tries to starve the Lion into submission. At one point, the Wicked Witch of the West tricks Dorothy and snatches one of Dorothy’s silver shoes. Angry, Dorothy throws water on her, which causes the Witch to melt.
The narrator tries to dissuade the woman from ordering more delicacies by saying certain things to subtly influence her behavior. He also orders the cheapest item on the...
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- Analysis of The Witch
- About Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
‘The Witch’ is a short narrative poem in which the initial speaker of the poem, the witch, is describing the trial she has endured and all of the hardships she faced as she wandered around the earth. She tells the reader she is not strong in body and her “clothes are wet.” The journey has been hard on her and the reader may ask, how did she do it? ...
First Stanza
Coleridge begins this piece by allowing her narrator, the witch in the poem, to describe herself and the journey that she has been on. This speakertells of how she has “walked a great while,” not just on roads, but over snow, making the trek even more difficult. She has completed this task without strength or height to assist her. She has no physical power that has aided her. To add to her struggles, her “clothes are wet” and her “teeth are set.” She is downtrodden, soaked through, but determ...
Second Stanza
The speaker of ‘The Witch’ spends the second stanza standing outside the door of the home begging to come in. She does so by describing the “cutting wind” that is blasting her as she stands there, how her hands are like “stone” and her “voicea groan.” She is expending a lot of energy in these lines to describe the distress she is in. She wants the reader and the residents of the home to know she is suffering. She is in so much pain that it is as if, “the worst of death is past.” All that is l...
Third Stanza
The final stanza of this piece is told by the resident of the home. He is mentally returning to that moment and recalling what it was like before, during, and right after he let her into his home. He describes her in the first line just as she was hoping he’d see her, as simple and in need. Her voice is described as being like that of a woman, “plead[ing] for [her] heart’s desire. It is clear that when this new speaker first heard her voice he was moved by it, so much so that he decided to op...
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge was born in London in 1861 into an intensely literary and artistic environment. She was the daughter of parents (with whom she would live her entire life) who were gifted in music, and the great-grandniece of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, best known for his works, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan.” Not only...
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Summary. Chapter 14: Hello, Grandmamma. The boy and Bruno run down the hall and up the stairs to the fifth floor without seeing anyone. Just as they get outside of the boy's grandmother's room, the boy sees the chambermaid coming down the hall.
Jun 3, 2022 · She assaults her physically, but the result is a gruesome death courtesy of Thomasin, who defends herself with a bill hook. As for the children, the eldest son, Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw)...
He drops the formula into their soup in the kitchen. What is the narrator and grandmothers plan after they leave the hotel? To find the grand high witches house and use the formula on everyone inside. Grandmother leaves him at the table after the witches were turned into mice.
The narrator and Grandmamma hatch a plan to take out all the witches in the world: they will turn the new Grand High Witch and all her assistants into mice, then steal their records detailing where the other witches live, and travel the world doing the same to all the other witches.
