“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Ode to a Grecian Urn
100
“–E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop.”
My Last Duchess
100
The writer in "Song of Myself" reveals himself to be _____ years old and in perfect health.
Thirty-seven
100
What punctuation mark is a prominent feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
The Dash
100
How does Billy die at the end of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor?
He is executed
200
"Heavenly Hurt, it gives us -
We can find no scar,
But internal difference,
Where the Meanings, are -"
"There's a certain Slant of light."
200
"He is calls himself by thy name, for he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child."
"The Lamb"
200
The poetic style that Robert Browning is most associated with is the
Dramatic Monologue
200
Captain Vere's nickname is
Starry Vere
200
What feature of life in the North does Frederick Douglass find to be the most astonishing?
The fact that many "colored" people enjoyed the same standard of living as slave holders in the South
300
"I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with em snd the pains pf hell are with me."
Song of Myself
300
"Who has time for love, it's lore?
Delight in beauty? - now no more."
"No more those meetings, partings, tears!"
300
For what does the mysterious afterguardsman try to recruit Billy?
A conspiracy to mutiny
300
"The moral nature was seldom out of keeping with the physical make."
Billy Budd
300
On which ship does Billy work at the opening of the novel Billy Budd?
The Rights-of-Man
400
"Because I was happy upon the heath,
And smiled among the winter's snow:
They clothed me in the clothes of death,
And taught me to sing the notes of woe."
The Chimney Sweeper - Songs of Experience
400
And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again"
Tintern Abbey
400
In what poem does a wanton woman entrance a "woebegone" knight with her beauty and playfulness, only to lead him into a despairing state of solitude?
La Belle Dame sans Merci
400
Why is Douglass surprised by New Bedford?
He has been led to believe that the North is poverty-stricken
400
In “I heard a Fly buzz,” what cuts the speaker off from the light?
The fly’s wing
500
Well pleased to recognise in nature and the language of the sense, the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, the guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul of all my moral being.
Tintern Abbey
500
"Piper sit thee down and writer,
In a book that all may read" -
So he vanished from my sight,
And I plucked a hollow reed,
Introduction - Songs of Innocence
500
"These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself."
Song of Myself
500
What important Romantic concept is represented when Wordsworth describes nature as "the burthen of the mystery, / in which the heavy and the weary weight / of all this unintelligible world, / is lightened..."?
Transcendence
500
In “Because I could not stop for Death,” what does the speaker pass by during her carriage-ride with Death?