Final Exam

Question 1

Robert Browning

Answer 1

May 7, 1812; England

Question 2

Porphyria’s Lover

Answer 2

The speaker of the poem strangles his lover with her own hair, then speaks to her corpse all night; Robert Browning

Question 3

My Last Duchess

Answer 3

Robert Browning speaks of The Duke who had his duchess killed due to her alleged unfaithfulness

Question 4

Fra Lippo Lippi

Answer 4

Lippo is torn between the life within the church and the corruptness of his surroundings; Robert browning

Question 5

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

Answer 5

He has not yet been knighted, and goes on a journey to find the tower, once he finds it he sounds his horn and knows his journey and life have met their end; Robert Browning

Question 6

Andrea del Sarto

Answer 6

Robert Browning writes of a painter who compares their work to that of great artists, but is disappointed that his is not a powerful

Question 7

Dante Rossetti

Answer 7

May 17, 1828

Question 8

The Blessed Damozel

Answer 8

Rosetti writes of his lover going into the light, or dying

Question 9

The Woodspurge

Answer 9

Rosetti writes of a man sitting in a field with his head between his knees, feeling depressed

Question 10

The House of Life: Silent Noon

Answer 10

Rosetti writes of himself and his lover within a happy moment, that he wishes to dwell on

Question 11

William Morris

Answer 11

March 28, 1834

Question 12

Hay Stack in the Flood

Answer 12

Morris writes of a woman and her lover, who once returned to Paris will face death.

Question 13

How I Became a Socialist

Answer 13

Morris writes of the reasons that he fell to socialism

Question 14

Walter Pater

Answer 14

August 4, 1839

Question 15

Leonardo da Vinci Conclusion

Answer 15

Pater speaks of da Vinci’s life as a painter

Question 16

the Conclusion

Answer 16

the love of art is the center of most topics; Pater

Question 17

Oscar Wilde

Answer 17

October 16, 1854; arrested for being gay

Question 18

Joseph Conrad

Answer 18

December 3, 1857

Question 19

Heart of Darkness

Answer 19

Conrad writes of the Nellie sailing up the congo to discover the mistreatment of the natives

Question 20

William Yeats

Answer 20

June 13, 1865

Question 21

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Answer 21

Yeats describes the peace within solitude that he will have in the cablin he plans to build

Question 22

The Wild Swans at Coole

Answer 22

Yeats dotes over a flock of swans to wake up one morning to find them gone

Question 23

The Second Coming

Answer 23

Yeats describes a supposed apocalypse; very violent and descriptive

Question 24

Sailing to Byzantium

Answer 24

Journey to Byzantium where Yeats wishes to become a golden bird and escape nature

Question 25

Byzantium

Answer 25

Yeats reaches Byzantium finally, and becomes the bird he wishes about in Sailing to Byzantium

Question 26

Leda and the Swan

Answer 26

Yeats writes of a woman being raped by a swan

Question 27

Among School Children

Answer 27

Yeats writes of the benefits of more mature children

Question 28

Virginia Wolfe

Answer 28

January 25, 1882

Question 29

The Legacy

Answer 29

Characters in Woolf’s piece- Sissy Miller, Maid, Gilbert Clandon

Question 30

TS Eliot

Answer 30

September 26, 1888

Question 31

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Answer 31

Eliot writes about a woman he wishes to have relations with, but in the end of the poem never reveals his feelings

Question 32

The Waste Land

Answer 32

Eliot notates 5 sections, dealing with despair and meaningless; important to 20th century writing

Question 33

James Joyce

Answer 33

February 2, 1882

Question 34

Araby

Answer 34

Joyce writes of a boy who is infatuated with a girl, he goes the the bazaar to get her a gift, but everything is too expensive. he realizes in the end that his infatuation is absurd and doesn’t tell her

Question 35

The Dead

Answer 35

Lily, Gabriel, Conroy…Joyce writes of Gabriel as a man of responsibility and importance while exploring life and death.