CANON

Question 1

The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2

Answer 1

‘Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Burden. Ding-dong.
Hark! Now I hear them -ding-dong bell.

Question 2

Dante Inferno III (as he passes through gates of Hell)

Answer 2

‘I would not have thought / that death had undone so many’

Question 3

Dante Inferno 4 (first circle of hell or limbo)

Answer 3

‘Sighs, which kept the air forever trembling’

• torment of desiring to see god but knowing that they never will as not baptised

Question 4

Antony And Cleopatra Act 2 Scene 2 - enobarbus

Answer 4

‘The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that
The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver’

Question 5

Psalm 137

Answer 5

‘By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion’

Question 6

Moby Dick (after Ishmael presents us with list of whale types he says it will remain unfinished)

Answer 6

‘God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught - may, but the fraught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!’

Question 7

WHITMAN - meaning of poems

Answer 7

‘Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? // step this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems’

Question 8

EMILY DICKINSON (wild vs human) The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

Answer 8

‘The brain is just the weight of God-/ for-heft them pound for pound-/ and they will differ - if they do-/ as syllable from sound’

Question 9

Byron comedy by lengthening

Answer 9

Don Juan ‘But O, ye lords of ladies intellectual,/ Inform us truly, have they not henpeck’d you all?’