Questions below refer to these excerpts: Excerpt 1: [First stanza:] I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. [Last stanza:] This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. - From The Waking by Theodore Roethke, in Roethke: Collected Poems Excerpt 2: [First stanza:] I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my... Show more

Questions below refer to these excerpts:

Excerpt 1:
[First stanza:] I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
[Last stanza:] This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

- From The Waking by Theodore Roethke, in Roethke: Collected Poems

Excerpt 2:
[First stanza:] I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
[Last stanza:] I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

- From Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Excerpt 3:
[First stanza:] Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
[Last stanza:] And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- From Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

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