Themes
Part of the dying process is giving up the illusion of this.
What is control?
In Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death," the speaker and Death do this.
Take a ride.
She walks into the A&P in a bikini.
Who is Queenie?
"He beat me up one night. He dragged me around the living room by my ankles. He kept saying, `I love you, I love you, you b----.' He went on dragging me around the living room. My head kept knocking on things." The quotation is from this story.
What is "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love?"?
He wrote “Masque of the Red Death.”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the Greek word for romantic love.
What is eros?
In Byron's most famous love poem, he says the lady "Walks in beauty like the _________".
This is the word that goes in the blank.
What is "night?"
In “Reunion,” the father shows off this skill to impress his son.
What is "speaks Italian"?
"With the straps pushed off, there was nothing between the top of the suit and the top of her head except just her, this clean bare plane of the top of her chest down from the shoulder bones like a dented sheet of metal tilted to the light. I mean, it was more than pretty." This quotation is from this story.
What is "A&P"?
What is "Araby?"
In fiction, characters “come of age” when the realize they have this.
What is agency?
In "How to Like It," a poem about the beginning of Autumn, he wants to build the world's tallest sandwich.
What is the dog?
He fails to show up at the end of “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."
Who is God?
"Your name is oil poured out; that is why the girls love you." What very old poem is this from?
The Song of Songs (which is Solomon's).
Frank O'Connor wrote this humorous story.
Up until WWI, if you asked someone what the purpose of art was, they would say this.
What is beauty?
In Hopkins' "Spring and Fall to a Young Child," the speaker tells the girl that in mourning for the autumn, she is really morning for this.
Who is herself?
Mel McGinnis, second husband of Terri, is this for a living.
What is a cardiologist?
"He did not think of trying to draw close to her or of winning her love. He looked at her as one might look at a star or across a country of low hills in October when the leaves of the trees are all red and yellow gold. 'She is a pure, virginal thing,' he thought vaguely." The quotation is from this story.
What is "Brothers"?
This realist author wrote "Brothers."
Who is Sherwood Anderson?
In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the "above ground" part represents this.
What is the transcendent realm?
In Wordsworth's poem, the narrator says his heart dances when he remembers how he saw these.
What are daffodils?
He gets his father shot.
Who is Satoris "Sarty" Snopes?
"He felt this cursed tenderness, even in their docility, in the low tones of their voices when speaking to him, in their lowered eyes, and in their resigned tears when he reproved them roughly. And he would shake his cassock on leaving the convent doors, and walk off, lengthening his stride as though flying from danger." The quotation is from what story?
What is "Claire de Lune"?
She wrote "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and had a complicated relationship to her faith.
Who is Katherine Anne Porter?