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Where does Walt Whitman tell you to look for him near the end of "Song of Myself"?
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Under your boot-soles
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What did Dr. Blair claim in lecture was the most beautiful line in "Song of Myself"?
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and now it is the beautiful uncut hair of graves
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According to lecture, other than a lover, who might be the "hugging and loving bedfellow" who "sleeps at my side through/ the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with a stealthy tread" in Whitman's "Song of Myself"?
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God
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What color is the "flag of my disposition" in Whitman's "Song of Myself"?
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Green
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According to Whitman in "Song of Myself," "One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is _________."
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myself
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When Whitman writes "I am large, I contain multitudes," he's explaining the fact that he:
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contradicts himself
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Toward the end of "Song of Myself", Whitman says he will make what kind of sound?
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a barbaric yamp
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When a child asks him what grass is in "Song of Myself," what's Whitman's initial thought about the grass?
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he doesn't know what it is
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When Whitman writes in "Song of Myself," "Always the procreant urge of the world./Out of the dimness opposite equals in advance, always substance increase," he's talking about:
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sex
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According to lecture, what power does Dickinson seem to suggest that God has that she does not have at the end of "My life had stood a loaded gun?"
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to die
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At the end of Emily Dickinson's "because I could not stop for death," what are the "horses heads" pointed towards (that is, where are they taking her?)
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towards eternity
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Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my brain" is probably about:
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mental anguish
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What might the fly represent for Dickinson in her " I heard a fly buzz-- when I died"?
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doubt about God's existence
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"My life had stood--- a loaded gun" is a conceit. What does that mean?
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it is an extended metaphor
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If "My life had stood.." is read metaphorically as we discussed in class, it is probably a poem about:
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the poet's relationship with God
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What has Emily Dickinson probably lost in “I never lost as much but twice”?
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people she cares about
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What, probably, are the “Alabaster Chambers” in Emily Dickinson’s “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”?
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tombs
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What is the difference in tone between "I heard a fly buzz--when I died," and "Because I could not stop for death?"
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one is doubtful, the other certain and accepting
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The “hangover” feeling to Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” is suggested in part by an image which says she feels “As all the Heavens were a Bell” and her being but a(n):
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ear
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What seems to be the tone of these lines from “I never lost as much but twice”: “Burglar! Banker—Father!/ I am poor once more!”
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accusatory
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How is death personified in “Because I could not stop for Death”?
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as a gentlemen
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What is the rafter made of Emily Dickinson’s "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers"?
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satin
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According to lecture, her neighbors sometimes called Emily Dickinson:
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the moth of Amherst
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Where is it that Emily Dickinson “felt a funeral”?
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“in my brain”
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Who are the mourners waiting for in “I heard a fly buzz—when I died”?
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“the King”
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At the end of “I heard a fly buzz—when I died” Dickinson writes, “And then the Windows failed—and then I _____________”?
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could not see to see
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What image in “Because I could not stop for Death” is an archetypal image of eternity?
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a ring
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According to lecture, what probably is the “emphatic Thumb” that Dickinson writes about laying on foes of her “owner” in “My life had stood a loaded gun”?
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a bullet
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What do the birch trees represent, metaphorically, for the poet in Robert Frost's "Birches"?
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transcendence and return
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What does the “pathless wood” represent metaphorically in “Birches”?
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the trials and tribulations in life
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In the poem “Birches,” where does Frost think is “the right place for love”?
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earth
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In “Birches,” Frost compares the way the boy climbs to tree to:
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filling a cup
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According to lecture, Frost’s use of iambic meter causes what sort of effect?
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bounciness
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What poet wrote the line, “And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier”?
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Walt Whitman
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Which poet wrote extensively in “blank verse”?
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Robert Frost
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“Song of Myself” clearly demonstrate Whitman's faith in
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democracy
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“Song of Myself” belongs to which form of poetry?
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free verse
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Who is the “old crone rocking the cradle” in Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”?
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the sea
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What is the title of Whitman’s one major book of poetry?
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leaves of grass
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“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” is an example of a:
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a. bildungsroman
c. künstleroman |
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According to lecture, what might be suggested by the following line from “Song of Myself”: “Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening. . . .”
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an archetypal image of death
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What is "democratic" about Whitman's poetry?
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it is about feelings and sensations being universal
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When Whitman writes, “I, now thirty-seven years old begin,/ hoping to cease not till death,” what is he probably talking about beginning?
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writing his poem
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What does Whitman probably mean by “Creeds and schools in abeyance,/ retiring back a while sufficed at what they are”?
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he wants to temporarily put aside differences
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What is Whitman probably saying when he writes that “My foothold is tenon’d and mortis’d in Granite?
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that he will always be around
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When Whitman writes in “Song of Myself” “You sea! I resign myself to you also--I guess what you mean,” what does he probably guess it means?
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Life
Death |
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Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” was described in lecture as:
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an elegy
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What does Whitman probably mean when he calls the bird a “demon” in “Out of the Cradle. . .”?
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a. that it’s an inspiring spirit
b. that its grief has changed him |
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According to lecture, what does Whitman probably use the “lilac-scent” in “Out of the Cradle. . . “ to symbolize?
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love
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What “word final, superior to all” does the sea tell Whitman in “Out of the Cradle. . .”?
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death
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With what has the narrator of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” measured out his life?
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Coffee Spoons
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Who does Prufrock not think will sing to him?
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mermaids
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When T. S. Eliot compares the London fog to a cat “licking its tongue into the corners of the evening,” in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” it’s an example of:
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metaphysical conceit
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What poet wrote the lines, “when by now and tree by leaf/ she laughed his joy she cried his grief/ bird by snow and stir by still/ anyone’s any was all to her”?
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e.e. Cummings
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According to lecture, when Robert Frost writes in “Stopping by Woods” that he has “miles to go before I sleep,” he’s suggesting what?
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he has much to do before he dies
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According to lecture, who possibly is Frost referring to in “Stopping by Woods” when he writes “whose woods these are/ I think I know”?
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God
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According to lecture, e. e. cummings uses the image of snow when he writes about children growing up in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” in order to symbolically suggest what?
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forgetfulness
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What object does e. e. cummings describe as rattling “like a fragment of angry candy” in “the cambridge ladies”?
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the moon
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According to lecture, what is e .e. cummings probably suggesting about the Cambridge ladies when he writes that they “live in furnished souls”?
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that their souls aren't open to new things
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When he’s writing about the state of the Cambridge ladies’ souls, e. e. cummings declares that they believe in “______ and Longfellow, both dead.”
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Christ
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According to lecture, how do the people in e. e. cummings’ poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” seem to feel about “anyone.”
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they dislike him
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In Wallace Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” the line “whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds” is an example of what literary device?
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alliteration
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. In the poem “Emperor of Ice Cream” Stevens writes “let the lamp affix its beam.” In this line, the lamp is used as an archetypal image of ______________?
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truth
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In “The Idea of Order at Key West,” what is the creative force personified as?
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a woman singing
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Who or what, according to Wallace Stevens in “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” is the “only emperor”?
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the emperor of ice cream
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In Wallace Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” what does the speaker say should be put over the dead woman’s face?
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a sheet embroidered with “fantails”
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In Wallace Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” what does the ice cream itself probably represent?
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a. death c.pleasure
b. temporariness |
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In the poem, “The Idea of Order at Key West,” what, according to lecture, does Wallace Stevens mean by the lines “But it was she and not the sea we heard./ For she was the maker of the song she sang.”
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that the woman was the only source of beauty in the scene
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According to lecture, the “Ramon Fernandez” referred to in “The Idea of Order at Key West” could possibly be:
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a. a literary critic that Stevens knew
b. just a name that sounded good in the poem |
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According to lecture, what is the “order” in “The Idea of Order at Key West”?
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art
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According to lecture, when J. Alfred Prufrock asks if he dares “to eat a peach,” it is likely a(n):
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a. sexual image
b. indication of a lack of self-confidence |
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One section of "Song of Myself" describe a richly dressed woman watching twenty-nine....
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bathers
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When the child asks him what grass is in "Song of Myself," what's Whitman's initial thought about the grass?
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he doesn't know what it is
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In section 51 of "Song of Myself," which line follows "Do I contradict myself?"
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very well then I contradict myself
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What best describes the poetry Whitman wrote?
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Free verse
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After publishing Leaves of Grass, Whitman...
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added more poems to it and published it repeatedly
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What is Whitman, the poet narrator, doing at the beginning of "Song of Myself"?
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loafing and observing
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According to the lecture, her neighbors sometimes called Emily Dickinson:
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the moth of amherst
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You can sing almost all of Emily Dickinson's poetry to the tune of "Gilligans Island" because it is written in:
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Common Meter
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What does Walt Whitman suggest about the grass in writing, "Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord/ A scented gift and rememberancer designedly dropped"?
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The grass is God's reminder to us of his existence
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What is "democratic" about Whitman's poetry?
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it is about feelings and sensations being the same for everyone.
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What poet wrote the poem which begins with the images of a woman in a pegnoir eating oranges with a green cockatoo?
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Wallace Stevens
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What do the birch trees represent, metaphorically, for the poet in Robert Frost's "Birches"?
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.
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What does Wallace Stevens probably mean by this line from "Sunday Morning": "Death is the mother of beauty"?
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beauty is caused by impermanence
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What does Stevens seem to suggest with the lines, "The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits lingering"?
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Christ was not resurrected
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"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" is probably about:
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Mental Anguish
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You can sing almost all of Dickenson's poetry to the tune of "Gilligan's Island" because it is written in:
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the meter of protestant hymns
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"Romantic" poetry is poetry that, in particular:
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What depends on "a red wheel/ barrow// glazed with rain"?
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.
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Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” may be best described as:
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an elegy
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“Beat! Beat! Drums!” refers to the beginning of what conflict?
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the American Civil war
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Many of William Carlos Williams poems feature:
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.
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What is the tone of Emily Dickinson’s “I tast a liquor never brewed”?
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exuberant
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What has Emily Dickinson probably lost in “I never lost as much but twice”?
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.
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. How is death personified in Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for death?”
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as a gentleman
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What does Whitman mean when he writes, “Creeds and schools in abeyance”?
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he’s putting aside differences between us
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When Whitman talks about how “Houses and rooms are full of perfumes,” what is he referring to?
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the smells of everyday life
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Which poet describes a woman watching young men swimming in the ocean?
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Whitman
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When did Whitman hear the mockingbird’s song in “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking?
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when he was a boy
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Where was the Mockingbird from?
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Alabama
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What event causes the mockingbird to sing the song that Whitman “translates”?
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the disappearance of its mate
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What accompanies the bird in its “aria” in Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”?
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the sea
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What is Paumanok?
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Long Island, New York
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What word does the sea tell Whitman in “Out of the Cradle. . .”?
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.
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What permanent effect does the mockingbird’s song have on Whitman?
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it makes him a poet
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Robert Frost uses the filling of a cup “Up to the brim, and even above the brim” as a metaphor for what?
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In “Birches,” Frost uses the image of a “pathless wood” to represent what?
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When Frost is describing the birch trees at the beginning of his poem, what does he conclude bends “them down to stay.”
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.
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What term below best describes the bird’s attitude in “The Oven-Bird” as the poet interprets it?
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What, probably, is the “diminished thing” the oven-bird is singing about?
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What is wrong with our traditional concept of heaven, according to Wallace Steven’s “Sunday Morning”?
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nothing ever changes there
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Why does Stevens use pigeons at the end of the poem?
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because they are common
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you can sing almost all of dickenson’s poetry to the tune of “gilligan’s island” because it is written in:
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common meter OR the meter of protestant hymns
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according to emily dickinson, who is it that “success is counted sweetest” by?
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people who never succeed
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who watches the twenty-nine young men bathing in the sea in “song of myself”?
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a lonely woman/whitman himself (a & c, but not b)
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“lyric” poetry is poetry that, in particular:
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is about the poet’s own insights and emotions
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when whitman writes, “I, now thirty-seven years old begin,/hoping to cease not till death,” what is he probably talking about beginning?
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writing his poetry
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what does Whitman probably mean when he calls the bird a “demon” in “out of the cradle”?
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the he is possessed by its soul
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what poet wrote the line, “and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier”?
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Walt Whitman
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what is the title of whitman’s one-and-only book of poetry?
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leaves of grass
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what does wallace stevens seem to suggest we should substitute for faith in god?
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living life to its fullest
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what women talk of while they come and go in “the love song of j. alfred prufrock?
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michaelangelo
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in “the wasteland” what does the “hanged man” card that madame sosostris doesn’t find when she does her tarot card reading probably represent?
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Christ
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why is quotation from dante about guido de montefeltro burning in a flame in hell an appropriate epigraph for “the love song of j. alfred prufrock?
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both guido & j. alfred are making confessions
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when j. alfred prufrock asks if he dares “to eat a peach” it is likely a(n):
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sexual image/indication of a lack of self-confidence (a & b, but not c)
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the lines “when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table” is an example of:
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metaphysical conceit
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what is prufrock trying to suggest in comparing himself to Polonius, the character from shakespeare’s hamlet?
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that he is nobody important
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what is a “trimmer”?
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someone who has lived w/o doing good or evil
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why does eliot think that modern people like a “death in life”?
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they don’t commit themselves to anything
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in “emperor of ice cream” stevens writes “let the lamp affix its beam.” the lamp is used as an archetypal image of:
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truth
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what does wallace stevens probably mean by this line from “the emperor of ice cream”: “let be be the finale of seem”?
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let reality take the place of illusion
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what does j. alfred prufrock suggest when he says “there will be time to murder and create”?
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that he wants to change who he appears to be
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the “sea-girls” at the end of “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” are allusions to what figures?
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the sirens of the odyssey
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in eliot’s “love song for j. alfred prufrock,” the women that talk of michaelangelo make prufrock feel:
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intimidated
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