This Lunar Beauty

Question 1

primarily uses ____ and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones

Answer 1

trochees

Question 2

the _____ could signify rising, prominence, setting and birth, life death.

Answer 2

three part structure

Question 3

“Love shall not near//___//Nor sorrow take// His endless look”

Answer 3

This sweetness here

Question 4

When was it written?

Answer 4

1930

Question 5

“But this was never// A ___ endeavour”

Answer 5

ghost’s

Question 6

“For time is ___//And the heart’s changes//Where ghost has haunted”

Answer 6

inches

Question 7

“And ___ is// The loss of this”

Answer 7

daytime

Question 8

“This like a ___//Keeps other time”

Answer 8

dream

Question 9

“This lunar beauty// Has no __ // is complete and early:

Answer 9

history

Question 10

Auden depicts a type of unalterable beauty, a beauty that could be described in _____ terms as ‘originally’ or ‘primal’; it is wraithlike, otherworldly, exceeding the bounds of reality and the mutability of human sensations.

Answer 10

Nietszchean

Question 11

it stands outside the realm of the ____, testifying to the incommensurability of the speaker’s own experience and the reader’s experience of the poem’s own rhythm

Answer 11

reducible

Question 12

the pre-pubescent beauty is not….

Answer 12

ravage day sexual desire

Question 13

What is the meter?

Answer 13

dimeter (two beats per line) - the smallest measure meter can sustain

Question 14

The poem has a ______ feeling created by the rhythm and rhyme

Answer 14

lyrical

Question 15

_________ rhyme scheme

Answer 15

unstructured

Question 16

poem is rooted in the _______ ________ of rhythm

Answer 16

subversive possibilities

Question 17

Mesmerises by the incommensurability of the type of beauty evoked and the poem’s own ______, almost __________ two-beat rhythm, whose overpowering resonance seems to ward off the ‘ghost’ of mortality that hovers over the poem

Answer 17

ethereal

hypnotic

Question 18

The ______ ________ rhythm testifies to speaker’s aspiration for some transcendental experience

Answer 18

forcefully cadenced

Question 19

the sublime power of the poem’s own rhythm exceeds the confines of linguistically and culturally mediated reality, so the poems disclose their own inability to represent what is by essence beyond ______ ________.

Answer 19

semantic reduction

Question 20

There is a sense of ____ ________.

Answer 20

formal reticence

Question 21

what is _______ is not ____ but ______.

Answer 21

endless, love, sorrow.

Question 22

Sorrow is ________ the position of the poet, looking at the beautiful already looking back at him.

Answer 22

personified

Question 23

compellingly simple but almost esoteric language is used to testify to his aspiration for a transcendental experience

Answer 23

e.g. his cryptic use of ‘lover’ and the ambiguous demonstrative pronoun ‘this’ or obsessive adjective ‘His’