Quiz 5

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Quiz 5

• Keats, Shelley
• Tennyson

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1. Bright Star

• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou
  artNot Noyet still stedfast, still
  unchangeable,Pillow'd upon my fair love's
  ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall
  and swell,Awake for ever in a sweet
  unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken
  breath,And so live everor else swoon to death.

• (Choose the wrong one)
• The alliteration of s sound suggests the
  softness of the lover
• The use of rhymes suggests regularity of life.
• The repetition of still and for ever suggests
  the speakers steadfast love
• It is paradoxically juxtaposed with images of
  short and transient motions and death.

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2. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy

• X
• I saw pale kings and princes too,   
• Pale warriors, death-pale were they all
• They criedLa Belle Dame sans Merci   
• Hath thee in thrall!         
• XI.
• I saw their starved lips in the gloam,   
• With horrid warning gaped wide,
• And I awoke and found me here,   
• On the cold hills side.
• XII.
• And this is why I sojourn here,
• Alone and palely loitering,
• Though the sedge is witherd from the lake,   
• And no birds sing.

(Choose the wrong one) 1. The knights
repetition in section XII of the speakers words
in section I suggests the formers lack of
sincerity. 2. The nightmare vision makes the
knights pursuit symbolic. 3. The poems ballad
formwith its rhymes and alliteration--suggests
the repetitiveness of the experience described.
4. The poem has a frame in the present tense
to suggest the knights wandering in a permanent
present.
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3. Ozymandias

• Which of the following does not suggest ironic
  meanings?
• On the stone is written King of Kings,
• Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
• The sculpture now has only two legs of stone
  and a shattered visage
• The poem is told by a traveler to a narrator.
• Besides the sculpture there is boundless sand.

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4. Which of the following is NOT true of Dramatic
Monologue

1. It is a poem which involves a speaker speaking
   alone to an implied auditor.
2. The audience sometimes responds, and sometimes
   doesnt.
3. The speaker is frequently argumentative, though
   s/he may not be aware of the irony involved.
4. It dramatic scene is for the reader to flesh out.
   

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5. Matching Ulysses -- Choose the wrong match
1. "He works his work, I mine." 1. He is Telemachus
2. , I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race 2. Suggests boredom
3. One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 3. Suggests strong determination and energies
4. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocksThe long day wanes the slow moon climbs 4. The twilight suggests old age