Quiz 6: John Keats

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Quiz 6 John Keats

• Mortality, Love and Beauty

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
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1. Who serves as narrative frames in The Eve of
St. Agnes?

1. Porphyro
2. Madeline
3. Beadsman
4. Angela
5. Both no. 3 and 4

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2. Fill in the Blank

• They glide, like phantoms, into the wide hall
  Like phantoms, to the iron porch, they ____
  Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl, With a
  huge empty flagon by his side The wakeful
  bloodhound rose, and shook his hide, But his
  sagacious eye an inmate owns By one, and one,
  the bolts fill easy slide--- The chains lie
  silent on the footworn stones,-- The key turns,
  and the door upon its hinges groans.

1. crawl
2. Crawled
3. glide
4. glided

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3. In what way is Porphyro NOT a peeping Tom
(voyeur)?

• 1. He knows of St. Agnes custom before stealing
  into Madelines chamber and hiding himself in the
  closet.
• 2. He stares at Madeline on the bed.
• 3. He prepares a table of foods, and wakes
  Madeline up.
• 4. He wants her to be his bride and to run away
  with him.

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4. Which of the following does not involve
personification?

• 1. NO, no! go not to Lethe, neither twist
  Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous
  wine
• 2. She dwells with BeautyBeauty that must die
• 3. Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
• Bidding adieu
• 4. Ay, in the very temple of Delight
• Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine,
• Though seen of none save him whose strenuous
  tongue
• Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine

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5. Which of the following is NOT true about the 4
odes (that you have read)?

1. They all involve a quest (a process of
   questioning/differentiation, empathy entering a
   certain emotional status of others),
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn deals with dynamic art,
   while Ode to a Nightingale, static art.
3. The three figures on Ode on Indolence are Love,
   Ambition and Poesy.
4. Ode on Melancholy does not end with distancing
   the poet from Melancholy.