Poetry 2: Life, Birth and Death

Quiz

[Quiz 1] Which of the following interpretations is WRONG?

1. The following lines have regular iambic (抑揚 ) feet in the first line: I’m a mean, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

2. There are internal rhymes in the following lines:Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.

3. Free verse like the one below has its own regularity or pattern: A noiseless patient spider,I marked where on a little promontory it stood isolated,Marked how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

[Quiz 2] What are the missing words (from “Days” (for Philip Larkin, who didn't answer the question fully.) )?

• What do days mean?Answering this questionsends the __(1)__ to his penand raises the _(2)___ to his feet--

both scurrying to their graves across the field,armed with words and gods.

1.(1) Doctor and (2) priest

2.(1) lawyer and (2) doctor

3.(1) poet and (2) prophet

[Quiz 3] What are the missing words (from “Sestina”)?

It was to be, says the Marvel Stove.

I know what I know, says the almanac.

With crayons the child draws a ___ house

and a winding pathway. Then the child

puts in a man with buttons like tears

and shows it proudly to the grandmother.

1. broken

2. inscrutable

3. fallen

4.  rigid 

[Quiz 4] Which of the following underlined words suggest death as

a journey? Or rather--he passed Us--

The Dews grew quivering and chill--

For only -

My Tippet--only Tulle (薄紗 )—(1) Gossamer my Gown-

 

We paused before a (2) House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground--

The Roof was scarcely visible–

The Cornice(簷口 )--in the Ground--

 

Since then-- 'tis Centuries--and yet each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised (3) the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity--

From “Because I could not stop for Death”

[Quiz 5] Which of the following is NOT a major turning point in “Because I could

not stop for Death”?

1. from “passing” different objects in life to being “passed” over by the Sun,

2. When the speaker put away her labor and leisure for Death

3. from her use of the past tense, to the present tense (“Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each/Feels shorter than the day”).

4. When Death stops for the speaker.

[Quiz 6] Choose the right set of [Quiz 6] Choose the right set of answersanswers

__(1)__ __(1)__ whowho caught and sang the sun in flight, caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Do not go gentle into that good night.

__(2)____(2)__, , near deathnear death, who see with blinding sight , who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the lightRage, rage against the dying of the light. .

1. (1) Wise men (2) Good men1. (1) Wise men (2) Good men2. (1) Wild men (2) Grave men2. (1) Wild men (2) Grave men3. (1) Grave men(2) Good men3. (1) Grave men(2) Good men4. (1) Wild men (2) Good men4. (1) Wild men (2) Good men

From “Do not go gentle into that From “Do not go gentle into that good night”good night”