Chapter 2 of American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany is here in full — 388 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 2 of American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany is here in full — 388 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
The strong men keep coming on. They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken. They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers. The strong men ... they keep coming on. The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
Chapter 2 of American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany is here in full — 388 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
From this reading “They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.”
past form of “hang” — be suspended or hanging
From this reading “They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.”
occurring by chance
From this reading “They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.”
plural of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading “The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.”
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
From this reading “The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.”
a treeless grassy plain
From this reading “The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.”
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
From this reading “The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.”
the act of singing vocal music
From this reading “They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
the act of drawing spatially closer to something
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
absence of light or illumination
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
past form of “hang” — be suspended or hanging
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
occurring by chance
From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
the force of workers available
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
plural of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
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From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
a treeless grassy plain
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
the act of firing a projectile
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
the act of singing vocal music
From this reading They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
having strength or power greater than average or expected
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The strong men keep coming on.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
Chapter 2 of American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany by Robert [Contributor] Frost holds 388 sentences, grouped into 78 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 388 sentences of American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany, unabridged, divided into 78 reading sections.
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