Unit Two, Part Two – Poetic Innovations- dickinson & whitman

Question 1

t/f Whitman’s book of poetry, leaves of grass, was a financial failure and was considered crude and gross

Answer 1

T

Question 2

t/f the poem appearing in leaves of grass that consisted of 52 stanzas of celebrating the poet was “song of myself.”

Answer 2

T

Question 3

t/f Whitman embrace the idea of Puritan ethic

Answer 3

F

Question 4

t/f Whitman brings unity to his poems by the repetition of a rhyme scheme

Answer 4

F

Question 5

t/f In “a noiseless patient spider, “ whitman compares the spider to the poets own soul

Answer 5

T

Question 6

t/f Whitman experimented with the sonnet form

Answer 6

F

Question 7

t/f Whitman pays tribute to various common workers of America in the poem, “I hear south america singing.”

Answer 7

F

Question 8

t/f Emily Dickinson only wrote one hundred poems

Answer 8

F

Question 9

t/f in her mid-20s, Dickinson entered Harvard

Answer 9

F

Question 10

t/f Dickinson did not want any recognition

Answer 10

T

Question 11

t/f The poems by Emily Dickinson suggested she was much preoccupied with her many friendships

Answer 11

F

Question 12

t/f Dickinson always dressed in white

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T

Question 13

t/f Dickinson use slant rhyme but no formal rhythmic meter of any kind ever in her work

Answer 13

f

Question 14

t/f in her poems, Dickinson frequently examines the relationship between events of everyday life and the things of the spirit

Answer 14

T

Question 15

t/f A characteristic of Dickinson’s poems that immediately strikes the reader is her frequent use of rhyming couplets

Answer 15

F

Question 16

t/f Emily Dickinson was born, raised, and lived her life in Massachusetts

Answer 16

T

Question 17

Which of the following poems focuses most strongly on a lesson that can be learned from nature

Answer 17

“There is a certain slant of light”

Question 18

“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?

Answer 18

The brain is infinitely large in understanding

Question 19

In “my life closed twice before it’s close—,”. Three closings mentioned in the title refer to

Answer 19

the parting of two loved ones followed by the speakers death

Question 20

Which of these statements best expresses the central message of “my life closed twice before it’s close”?

Answer 20

Parting may be the closest we come in life to understanding death

Question 21

Which of the following images is the central image in “because i could not stoop for death—”?

Answer 21

a carriage ride

Question 22

In “I heard a Fly buzz— when i died—,” Why is there a stillness in the room

Answer 22

The pepole in the room are waiting for the speakers final moment

Question 23

In “The soul selects her own society—,” the soul is compared to

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a woman who stays in her house no matter who comes to visit her

Question 24

In because i could not stop for death, death is personified as

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a polite gentleman

Question 25

To which senses do the images in the stanza appeal?

Answer 25

Sight, sound, and touch

Question 26

How many lines of the poem have the same exact rhyme?

Answer 26

4

Question 27

What is the subject of the second stanza?

Answer 27

a found love

Question 28

According to the first stanza, what situation does not allow the speaker to experience “luxury”?

Answer 28

separation from her lover

Question 29

What is not a true statement

Answer 29

the poem is written in free verse

Question 30

In line 5, what are futile winds?

Answer 30

no desire to find a different person to love

Question 31

In line 6, what is meant by “a heart in port”?

Answer 31

Someone who has found love

Question 32

Whitman’s free verse in “Song of myself” uses all of the following devices except

Answer 32

rhyme

Question 33

Based on the details in “ song of myself” and “i hear america singing,” what can you infer about whitman’s attitude toward other people

Answer 33

he feels affectionate toward other people

Question 34

In “I hear america singing,” Whitman implies that americas are all of the following except

Answer 34

musical geniuses

Question 35

Which of the following was not a prime reason why whitman chose to write in free verse?

Answer 35

to imitate earlier poets he admired

Question 36

structurally speaking, what makes song of myself a typical whitman poem?

Answer 36

Its use of the natural cadences of human speech

Question 37

The central comparison in a noiseless patient spider is between the

Answer 37

spider and the speakers soul

Question 38

What can you infer about the poets attitude from these lines in “song of myself”

Answer 38

Whitman believes that his observations are, in some sense, universally shared

Question 39

Which of the following elements prevents song of myself from being an exercise in ego and selfishness

Answer 39

The poems linking of the individual self to a universal self

Question 40

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?

Answer 40

Writing poetry

Question 41

The singing the speaker hears in i hear america singing is

Answer 41

the individuality of americans in different walks of life

Question 42

The phrase barbaric yawp in song of myself is an example of whitmans

Answer 42

informality

Question 43

based on his poetry, what can you infer about whitman’s attitude toward nature?

Answer 43

I,II,III, and IV

Question 44

What situation in “ by the bivouac’s fitful flame prompts the thoughts of life, death, and people far away?

Answer 44

Being in the midst of war

Question 45

Which of the following is the main literary device used in “A noiseless patient spider?

Answer 45

Metaphor

Question 46

t/f in the line, “the varied carols I hear” from “ i hear america singing,” one can see the use of anastrophe

Answer 46

T