Reading Poetry
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25 Questions

1. Why does the poet say ‘Most mothers had long ceased to care.’ Why?
2. The term metaphysical was first used by ____
3. Matthew Arnold was a ________ poet.
4. In the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, what does the bird sing of?
5. In Sonnet 116, lines 9–12, beginning “Love’s not Time’s fool,” suggest that love —
6. The poem No Tears mourns __________
7. “And I Listened like a stone unshaken.” Identify the figure of speech used from the poem No Tears.
8. In the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings who clips the wings and ties the feet of the bird?
9. In the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, why does the caged bird sing?
10. According to John Keats in Ode on a Grecian Urn where do all the events depicted on the urn take place?
11. The opening lines of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard are set at
12. The poet compares the bent birches to________ in the poem Birches.
13. The reference to the “hoary-headed swain” in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard suggests Gray’s desire for recognition from
14. Prosody is the study of __________
15. When Robert Frost sees birch trees he remembers his childhood activity of _______
16. The poem The Man with the Hoe represents the sorry plight of the ________.
17. Alexander Pushkin is a _______ poet.
18. What does the speaker want in The Laboratory?
19. According to the speaker in Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines, forgetting is:
20. Which poem describes the love and courtship between the two poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning?
21. The poem How Do I Love Thee is a __________ sonnet
22. The poem calls the mosquito ___________ after one the world’s most famous statues of the same name.
23. What references to religion do you find in the poem How Do I Love Thee?
24. William Wordsworth was a _______ poet.
25. The poet uses a simile to demonstrate the mosquito’s ability to sail in the poem The Mosquito. What does he compare the mosquito to?