AP Literature



“An Echo Sonnet: To An Empty Page” Robert PackVoice:Echo:How from emptiness can I make a start?StartAnd starting, must I master joy or grief?GriefBut is there consolation in the heart?ArtOh cold reprieve, where’s natural relief?LeafLeaf blooms, burns red before delighted eyes.DiesHere beauty makes of dying, ecstasy.SeeYet what’s the end of our life’s long disease?EaseIf death is not, who is my enemy?MeThen you are glad that I must end in sleep?LeapI’d leap into the dark if dark were true.TrueAnd in that night would you rejoice or weep?WeepWhat contradiction makes you take this view?YouI feel your calling leads me where I go.GoBut whether happiness is there, you know.NoPromptWrite a well-organized paragraph in which you analyze how the formal elements of the poem contribute to its meaning.“The Death of a Toad” Richard WilburA toad the power mower caught,Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobbling hop has gotTo the garden verge, and sanctuaried himUnder the cineraria leaves, in the shadeOf the ashen and heartshaped leaves, in a dim,Low, and a final glade.The rare original heartsbleed goes,Spends in the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flowsIn the gutters of the banked and staring eyes. He liesAs still as if he would return to stone,And soundlessly attending, diesToward some deep monotone,Toward misted and ebullient seasAnd cooling shores, toward lost Amphibia’s emperies.Day dwindles, drowning and at length is goneIn the wide and antique eyes, which still appearTo watch, across the castrate lawn,The haggard daylight steer.PromptWrite a well-organized essay in which you explain how formal elements such as structure, syntax, diction and imagery reveal the speaker’s response to the death of a toad.“Piano” D. H. LawrenceSoftly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;Taking me back down the vista of years, till I seeA child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling stringsAnd pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of songBetrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belongTo the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outsideAnd hymns in the cosy parlor, the tinkling piano our guide.So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamourWith the great black piano appassionato. The glamourOf childish days is upon me, my manhood is castDown in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.PromptWrite a well-organized essay in which you explain how formal elements such as structure, syntax, diction and imagery reveal the speaker’s response to the situation.Word Studyindidiousreprievewizen consolationmonotone appassionatoebullient clamourhaggard parlorvista DirectionsUsing your own words, define the words above.Identify the antonym of each word.Give the etymology of each.Group the words in such a way as to make them more memorable. ................
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