English poems Flashcards

Question 1

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Author of “They flee from me that sometime did me seek”

Question 2

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Passage from what poem ?
“Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, ‘Dear heart, how like you this?’”

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Wyatt “They flee from me that sometime did me seke”

Question 3

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What are 4 points of “They flee from me that sometime did me seke”

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people used to spend time with him, naked with him even
imagining the women like animals now
there was one special women that he was intimate with
he doesn’t know wether or not to hate that special women, because she’s never done anything bad to him, he’s just too nice for his own good

Question 4

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author of “London”

Question 5

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What poem?
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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Blake “London”

Question 6

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4 points of London

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the speaker sees sadness and repetition in everyone face that he passes
he hears pain in every voice, every newborn baby
people being oppressed by the city
the marriage curse signifies love and death together

Question 7

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author of “washing day”

Question 8

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4 points of washing day

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women do domestic chores under the watch or expectations of her husband (marriage in general)
instances of female power often being overpowered
women feel like they are forced to do the wash
suffering snd hardship of women compared to men

Question 9

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author of “The Passionate Shepard to his Love”

Question 10

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“The Passionate Shepard to his Love” points

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unrealistic view of the world and maybe even love
man trying to seduce a women to come live with him
the importance of nature and how it will become materialistic things for them
wants a specific women to come live with him on the rallies, groves, hills, and fields in a quiet place

Question 11

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what poem?
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.

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Marlow “The Passionate Shepard to his Love”

Question 12

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what poem?
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and Ivy buds,
With Coral clasps and Amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.

The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.

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Marlow “The Passionate Shepard to his Love”

Question 13

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author of “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepard”

Question 14

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“The Nymphs Reply to the Shepard” points

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reply saying that if everything was so perfect, maybe she would be convinced
discusses how nature changes and things rot and get old
talks lots about the season changes
discusses how all of his thoughts and ideas will not last forever

Question 15

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What poem?
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When Rivers rage and Rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb,
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,
To wayward winter reckoning yields,
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.

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Ralegh “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepard”

Question 16

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What poem?
Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,
The Coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.

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Ralegh “The Nymphs Reply to the Shepard”

Question 17

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Author of Astrophil and Stella #71

Question 18

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What poem?
Who will in fairest book of nature know
How virtue may best lodg’d in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices’ overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason, from whose light those night-birds fly;
That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so.
And, not content to be perfection’s heir
Thyself, dost strive all minds that way to move,
Who mark in thee what is in thee most fair.
So while thy beauty draws thy heart to love,
As fast thy virtue bends that love to good:
But “Ah,” Desire still cries, “Give me some food!”

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Sidney “Astrophil and Stella #71”

Question 19

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Astrophil and Stella #71 points

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Stella is the most beautiful thing and if anyone wants to see beauty and perfection they should look to her
lines of her figure showing true virtue and decency
idea of perfection of something that he can’t have but loves (longing and desire)
poem implies desire as well as lust to to be selfless and do good deeds because he is inspired by the love of his life

Question 20

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Author of “The Flea”

Question 21

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What poem?
Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?
Yet thou triumph’st, and say’st that thou
Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;
’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:
Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,
Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

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Donne “The Flea”

Question 22

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“The Flea” points

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insignificant little flea made into a much bigger thing
comparing sex to blood in the flea
poem of seduction but an interesting way of him trying to get his women in bed
insisting virginity is unimportant and its loss will not be a significant source of shame or dishonour

Question 23

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Author of, “To His Coy Mistress”

Question 24

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“To His Coy Mistress” points

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saying that if they had forever, they wld spend all their time together doing exotic things and he would worship every part of her for the rest of his life
realizes that obviously they don’t have forever and her beauty will be lost
he’s saying that while they can now, they should have sex while she’s young and beautiful
he wants to enjoy life pleasures as much as possible and is trying to convince her of the same

Question 25

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What poem?
Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

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Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”

Question 26

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What poem?
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust;
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

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Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”

Question 27

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Author of “composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802”

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Wordsworth

Question 28

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What poem?
Earth has not any thing to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

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Wordsworth “composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802”

Question 29

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“composed upon Westminster bridge, September 3, 1802” points

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when people like where they are, they will deep or even surreal feelings for it
admiration for the cityscape
portrays the city as part of nature itself
vivid imagery throughout the poem

Question 30

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Author of “Ode to a Nightingale”

Question 31

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What poem?
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

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Keats “ode to a nightingale”

Question 32

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“ode to a nightingale” points

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dwells on the idea that nothing can last
angry about the bird being so happy
The nightingale is portrayed as a timeless and immortal creature in contrast to the fleeting nature of human life
the speakers ability to enjoy the world is compromised by his knowledge that nothing lasts forever

Question 33

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Author of “A Musical Instrument”

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Barrett Browning

Question 34

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What poem ?
He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
From the deep cool bed of the river :
The limpid water turbidly ran,
And the broken lilies a-dying lay,
And the dragon-fly had fled away,
Ere he brought it out of the river.

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Barrett Browning “A Musical Instrument”

Question 35

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“A Musical Instrument” points

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the great god Pan disregarding everything but himself
disrupting peace in the ecosystem in a violent way
making an instrument out of the reed but the speaker describes it in a disturbing way, almost like the reed is a human
perception of Pan changes throughout the poem, because now that that he is able to produce something beautiful he is regarded as being “sweet.”

Question 36

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Author of “My Last Duchess”

Question 37

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What poem?
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had
A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

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“My Last Duchess”

Question 38

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“My Last duchess” points

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man showing someone a painting of his late wife, discussing personality and behaviour
ominous, threatening, jealous, possessive and arrogant tone
learning about the Dukes possessive personality and how he may have ordered the murder of his last duchess
Duke is looking for his next duchess and the reader learns his thoughts on his last duchess

Question 39

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Author of “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer”

Question 40

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What poem?
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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“When I Heard the Learned Astronomer”

Question 41

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“When I Heard the Learned Astronomer” points

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the speaker finds the lecture on astronomy unbearable because he believes that there is power and beauty in nature that cannot be measured or explained by mathematical equations
the speaker describes the lecture unemotionally to mock how the lecture is being taught unenthusiastically
the free-spirited nature of the speaker’s actions contrasts with the rigidness of the astronomer’s lecture
looking at the stars is perfect silence for the speaker, meaning nature is perfect compared to the unbearable lecture he was in

Question 42

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What poem?
A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim,
And meets with sun-lost lip the marsh’s brim.

The pools low lying, dank with moss and mould,
Glint through their mildews like large cups of gold.

Among the wild rice in the still lagoon,
In monotone the lizard shrills his tune.

The wild goose, homing, seeks a sheltering,
Where rushes grow, and oozing lichens cling.

Late cranes with heavy wing, and lazy flight,
Sail up the silence with the nearing night.

And like a spirit, swathed in some soft veil,
Steals twilight and its shadows o’er the swale.

Hushed lie the sedges, and the vapours creep,
Thick, grey and humid, while the marshes sleep.

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Marshlands

Question 43

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Author of “Marshlands”

Question 44

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“Marshlands” points

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ecosystems growing in an undisturbed land
all sorts of animals inhabiting the lands
an ugly place with so much use for animals
“ugly” to humans

Question 45

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Author of “Mending wall”

Question 46

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What poem?
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

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Mending wall

Question 47

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“Mending wall” points

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the wall is not for the sake of walls, nothing is held within them, it just creates a divide between the neighbours
neighbour does not want to get rid of the wall even though there is “no reason for it”
they build the wall out of tradition/ out of habit
nature keeps trying to get the wall down and succeeds every year

Question 48

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author of “In a Station of the Metro”

Question 49

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What poem?
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

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“In a Station of the Metro”

Question 50

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Author of “the red wheelbarrow”

Question 51

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“the red wheelbarrow” points

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sense of wonder and tenderness as the speaker pauses to take stock of a common, simple item whose value people rarely notice or consider
The continuous re-framing of the wheelbarrow suggests that the speaker is encouraging the reader to look closer at the image at hand
very vague way of saying “so much depends on a red wheel barrow
the tone makes the reader slow down and loom over the wheelbarrow in the same way that the speaker does

Question 52

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What poem?
so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

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The Red Wheelbarrow

Question 53

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Author of “this is just to say”

Question 54

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What poem?
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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This is just to say

Question 55

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“This is just to say” points

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ate plums out of the fridge that someone was saving for themselves
asking for forgiveness by trying to justify how tempting the plums were
eating the plums outweighed any kind of guilt
tempting delights of everyday life

Question 56

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Author of “Musee des Beaux arts”

Question 57

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What poem?
About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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“Musee des Beaux arts”

Question 58

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“Musee des Beaux arts” points

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The painting actually portray the nature of human suffering
references many different poems and how people going about their everyday lives are paired with people suffering
demonstrates how through these paintings he sees that people don’t care or seem bothered when they witness others suffering
somethings always happening yet doesn’t affect anyone who’s not in direct orbit

Question 59

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Author of “Black rook in rainy weather”

Question 60

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What poem?
Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can’t honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Leap incandescent

Out of the kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then —
Thus hallowing an interval
Otherwise inconsequent

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“Black rook in rainy weather”

Question 61

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“Black rook in rainy weather” points

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the sight of the rook turned into something greater
lack of inspiration/ state of desperation for inspiration
from time to time, miracles occur and objects radiate a heavily aspect
dull landscape, no inspiration/ nature is her inspiration

Question 62

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Author of “I have not lingered in European Monasteries”

Question 63

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what poem?
I have not lingered in European monasteries
and discovered among the tall grasses tombs of knights
who fell as beautifully as their ballads tell;
I have not parted the grasses
or purposefully left them thatched.

I have not released my mind to wander and wait
in those great distances
between the snowy mountains and the fishermen,
like a moon,
or a shell beneath the moving water.

I have not held my breath
so that I might hear the breathing of God,
or tamed my heartbeat with an exercise,
or starved for visions.
Although I have watched him often
I have not become the heron,
leaving my body on the shore,
and I have not become the luminous trout,
leaving my body in the air.

I have not worshiped wounds and relics
or combs of iron,
or bodies wrapped and burnt in scrolls.

I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years.
During the day I laugh and during the night I sleep.
My favourite cooks prepare my meals,
my body cleans and repairs itself,
and all my work goes well.

Answer

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“I have not lingered in European Monasteries”

Question 64

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“I have not lingered in European Monasteries” points

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discussing more personal and direct engagement in life instead of connecting to anything spiritually
wants to find a meaning and a purpose in life but isn’t necessarily wanting to take a spiritual approach to it
discusses the speakers unique spiritual journey
avoiding the structured and established path of European monasteries

Answer 46

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Fife “Dear Walt”

Answer 47

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asking one of the most famous poets if there is a place where they all laugh about how little has changed about poetry
poets still believing that they make a difference in peoples hearts

Answer 48

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Erdrich “Dear John Wayne”

Answer 49

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in older Western movies, the indigenous are the bad guys , it is repetitive
brutal history of colonization
distructive influence of historical narratives
demonstrates the lack of differentiation and understanding of various native tribes
inaccurate portrayals

Answer 50

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language, ethnicity, and immigration
frustration with superior attitudes of “Mr. Oxford Don” with regards to immigrants like himself
struggles and obvious problems with being expected to adjust to a new culture so easy after immigration
discusses the ownership of language

Answer 51

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“Listen Mr. Oxford Don”

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