Unit Two, Part Two – Poetic Innovations- dickinson & whitman Flashcards
t/f Whitman’s book of poetry, leaves of grass, was a financial failure and was considered crude and gross
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t/f the poem appearing in leaves of grass that consisted of 52 stanzas of celebrating the poet was “song of myself.”
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t/f Whitman embrace the idea of Puritan ethic
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t/f Whitman brings unity to his poems by the repetition of a rhyme scheme
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t/f In “a noiseless patient spider, “ whitman compares the spider to the poets own soul
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t/f Whitman experimented with the sonnet form
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t/f Whitman pays tribute to various common workers of America in the poem, “I hear south america singing.”
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t/f Emily Dickinson only wrote one hundred poems
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t/f in her mid-20s, Dickinson entered Harvard
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t/f Dickinson did not want any recognition
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t/f The poems by Emily Dickinson suggested she was much preoccupied with her many friendships
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t/f Dickinson always dressed in white
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t/f Dickinson use slant rhyme but no formal rhythmic meter of any kind ever in her work
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t/f in her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the spirit
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t/f A characteristic of Dickinson’s poems that immediately strikes the reader is her frequent use of rhyming couplets
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t/f Emily Dickinson was born, raised, and lived her life in Massachusetts
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Which of the following poems focuses most strongly on a lesson that can be learned from nature
“There is a certain slant of light”
“The brain—is wider than the sky—” compares the physical size of the brain t that of the sky and the sea. What point is dickinson making when she uses these images?
The brain is infinitely large in understanding
In “my life closed twice before it’s close—,”. Three closings mentioned in the title refer to
the parting of two loved ones followed by the speakers death
Which of these statements best expresses the central message of “my life closed twice before it’s close”?
Parting may be the closest we come in life to understanding death
Which of the following images is the central image in “because i could not stoop for death—”?
a carriage ride
In “I heard a Fly buzz— when i died—,” Why is there a stillness in the room
The pepole in the room are waiting for the speakers final moment
In “The soul selects her own society—,” the soul is compared to
a woman who stays in her house no matter who comes to visit her
In because i could not stop for death, death is personified as
a polite gentleman
To which senses do the images in the stanza appeal?
Sight, sound, and touch
How many lines of the poem have the same exact rhyme?
4
What is the subject of the second stanza?
a found love
According to the first stanza, what situation does not allow the speaker to experience “luxury”?
separation from her lover
What is not a true statement
the poem is written in free verse
In line 5, what are futile winds?
no desire to find a different person to love
In line 6, what is meant by “a heart in port”?
Someone who has found love
Whitman’s free verse in “Song of myself” uses all of the following devices except
rhyme
Based on the details in “ song of myself” and “i hear america singing,” what can you infer about whitman’s attitude toward other people
he feels affectionate toward other people
In “I hear america singing,” Whitman implies that americas are all of the following except
musical geniuses
Which of the following was not a prime reason why whitman chose to write in free verse?
to imitate earlier poets he admired
structurally speaking, what makes song of myself a typical whitman poem?
Its use of the natural cadences of human speech
The central comparison in a noiseless patient spider is between the
spider and the speakers soul
What can you infer about the poets attitude from these lines in “song of myself”
Whitman believes that his observations are, in some sense, universally shared
Which of the following elements prevents song of myself from being an exercise in ego and selfishness
The poems linking of the individual self to a universal self
In song of myself when the speaker says i now thirty seven years old in perfect health begin,/ hoping to cease not till death,” What is he beginning?
Writing poetry
The singing the speaker hears in i hear america singing is
the individuality of americans in different walks of life
The phrase barbaric yawp in song of myself is an example of whitmans
informality
based on his poetry, what can you infer about whitman’s attitude toward nature?
I,II,III, and IV
What situation in “ by the bivouac’s fitful flame prompts the thoughts of life, death, and people far away?
Being in the midst of war
Which of the following is the main literary device used in “A noiseless patient spider?
Metaphor
t/f in the line, “the varied carols I hear” from “ i hear america singing,” one can see the use of anastrophe
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