Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 1

1st American to have has ……..placed in the Poet’s Coner of Westminster Abbey

Answer 1

Burst

Question 2

Used the greatest variety of …………….. when compared to other New England School Poets.

Answer 2

Genres and verse forms

Question 3

Best works followed ………

Answer 3

The death of his 2nd wife

Question 4

19th century American readers called long fellow ………….……

Answer 4

Their poet

Question 5

Mezzo Cammin mean?

Answer 5

Halfway up the road

Question 6

What type of Mezzo cammin?

Answer 6

Sonnet

Question 7

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

A lyric poem of 14 iambic pentameter lines a mentionably rhyming according to ……..

Answer 7

One or two patterns

Question 8

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

Line4: “some tower of song with lofty parapet”–> the tower he wants to build is ………..

Answer 8

Poetry

Question 9

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)
His perspective of his past suggests ……………………….
Line11 “ A city in the twilight dim and vast”–> he view his past as being Dark and dim
And the past is being compared to city

Answer 9

disappointment

Question 10

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

A self evaluation of his accomplishment, a review of his …..………… of the future.

Answer 10

experience and anticipation

Question 11

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

Metaphor : read and scenery along the road in comparison to ……

Answer 11

his life

Question 12

Cataract of death

Last line …………………

Answer 12

startling reference of Death

Question 13

Divina Commedia

Chiefly abt the ……

Answer 13

Blessing of prayer

Question 14

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

Part of a larger effort of his translation of ……………………… from Italian to England

Answer 14

Dante’s Divine comedy

Question 15

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

Line12 “The tumult of the disconsolate” refers to the …….. war rather than ……..

Answer 15

• Civil

- grief

Question 16

Sonnet(Mezzo Cammin)

Line14 “While the eternal ages watch and wait” refers to the historical magnitude of the ……………

Answer 16

translation project

Question 17

Burden mean grief for the tragic death of ?

Answer 17

His 2nd wife