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