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Poetry Exam Review1. What is the basic form of a sonnet2. In Spenser’s Sonnet 1, the speaker says the pages in his love’s hands are “Like captives trembling at the victor’s sight.” What theme does this line support? 3. In Spenser’s Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love’s name in the sand. What is the main message to his love in this poem? 4. What is the best description of the conceit in Sidney’s Sonnet 31, which begins, “With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies”? 5. In Sidney’s Sonnet 31, the speaker addresses the moon. In Sonnet 39, the speaker addresses sleep. What characteristic of a sonnet sequence do these two poems display? 6. How is a Spenserian sonnet different from a Petrarchan sonnet? 7. In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” what does the speaker urge his love to do? 8. Why does the nymph reject the shepherd in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”? 9. What is the speaker describing in these lines from “The Nymph’s Reply . . .”? Time drives the flocks from field to fold,/When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,/ And Philomel becometh dumb . . . 10. Which view of nature does Marlowe’s poem present (“The Passionate Shepherd)? 11. What are two subject’s in Donne’s “Song12. What is the speaker’s motivation in “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”? 13. How do you know that “Holy Sonnet 10” is a metaphysical conceit? 14. What does the speaker mean in these lines from “Meditation 17”? No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. 15. How is the mouse’s home destroyed in “To a Mouse”? 16. Which is the best translation of this line of dialect from “To a Mouse”? Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! 17. Which lines from “To a Louse” contains dialect? 18. What feelings does the speaker have for the mouse in “To a Mouse”? 19. Which sentence best describes Wordsworth’s response to nature when he had visited the abbey five years earlier, as expressed in “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”? 20. Which characteristic of “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” shows that it is a Romantic poem? 21. What is the meaning of the title of the poem “The World is Too Much With Us”? 22. Which of these characteristics of “The World is Too Much with Us” shows that it is a lyric poem? 23. What does the speaker in “London, 1802” mean by saying that England is in need of Milton? 24. Which of the following is a central theme of “She Walks in Beauty”? 25. Which question is answered by this line from “She Walks in Beauty”? She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies; 26. Which line from “She Walks in Beauty” best answers the question “To what does the speaker compare the woman in the poem?” 27. Which pair of lines from “She Walks in Beauty” contains an example of personification? 28. What is the main idea of “Ozymandias”? 29. Which line from “Ozymandias” best states the poem’s theme? 30. What do you think is the political message of “Ozymandias”? 31. Which is the main idea of this line from “When I Have Fears”? When I have fears that I may cease to be/Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, 32. To whom are the opening lines of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” addressed”? 33. What is the main idea of these lines from “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? And, little town, thy streets forevermore/Will silent be; and not a soul to tell/Why thou art desolate, can e’er return. 34. What does Tennyson mean by “state to state” in these lines from “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”? Eternal process moving on,/From state to state the spirit walks. . . 35. What is the theme of “In Memoriam, A.H.H.? 36. Why did Tennyson write “In Memoriam A.H.H”? 37. In “The Lady of Shalott,” what does the Lady of Shalott spend her time doing? 38. What is one philosophical belief that Tennyson tries to convey in “The Lady of Shalott”? 39. What does the speaker mean in this line from “Tears, Idle Tears”? Dear as remembered kisses after death . . . 40. What is the meaning of the following line in “In Memoriam, A.H.H.”? Far off thou art, but ever nigh 41. Who is the speaker talking to in “My Last Duchess”? 42. What is the subject of the speaker’s monologue in “My Last Duchess”? 43. How do you know “My Last Duchess” is a dramatic monologue? 44. What is the main idea of “Life in a Love”? 45. Based on the description of the woman whom the speaker loves in “Life in a Love,” how do her feelings compare to his? 46. What do you learn about the speaker’s mental state in “Porphyria’s Lover”? 47. In “Porphyria’s Lover,” what does the speaker use to strangle Porphyria? 48. Why does the speaker strangle Porphyria? 49. What question does the speaker answer in Sonnet 43? 50. “Sonnet 43” is mainly about… ................
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