In "The Road Not Taken," what is the difference between the two roads?
What is not much of a difference. They are comparable
100
In "Chicago," how does Sandburg handle the city’s obvious drawbacks—its violence and brutality?
What is by acknowledging them and being proud of his city anyway.
100
This is what depends upon a red wheelbarrow.
What is "so much."
100
In "“Thy fingers make early flowers of," on what does the speaker focus?
What is his love's physical beauty
100
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with ______
water
What is rain
200
Finish the line in your own words: "Yet knowing how way leads on to way I... "
What is I didn't know if I would ever come back
200
It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g. in a play) and directs speech to an absent third party. Often it is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object. In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the vocative exclamation "O".
What is apostrophe
200
What kind of image does William Carlos Williams create in "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
What is hard-working, well-used, simple, blue-collar farmer/worker.
200
In "Thy fingers make early flowers of," why does the speaker call Death “rich beyond wishing”?
What is because he gets to keep the speaker's love forever.
200
Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, _________,
What is brawling
300
In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” what night is being described?
What is the longest night of the year.
300
In "Fog," what’s important about the fog looming over the “harbor and city” and how do these lines contribute to the feeling of awe and anxiety?
What is that the inevitable (nature, advancement, etc.) will cover everything.
300
In "This is Just to Say," what is the effect of the description of how delicious the plums were?
What is to add humor to the poem/he is not really sorry that he ate the plums.
300
What is a reoccuring image or theme in "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"?
What is fragile or delicate imagery or descriptions.
What is natural imagery (flowers, snow, spring, etc.)
300
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent _______
and then moves on.
What is haunches
400
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
What is imabic tetrameter
400
In "Fog," why is a cat a good symbol for change?
What is because it is independent and comes and goes as it pleases.
400
How can we read "This is Just to Say" as a love poem?
What is because it simple and intimately relays care and concern to his wife, acknowledging her effort and his lack of control, but playfully and lovingly.
400
In "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond," is the speaker in a “healthy” relationship? Why or why not?
What is yes, the speaker loves someone. What is no, the speaker has too strong and too volatile of feelings for the beloved.
400
What is the last stanza of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
What is But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep...And miles to go before I sleep
500
In "Mending Wall," what do you think the “something” is that doesn't love a wall?
What is nature. What is the narrator.
500
In "Grass," why do you think Sandburg included the confused train passengers in the poem?
What is because they represent those who are ignorant to history and need to appreciate the past in order to change the future.
500
A type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting a new meaning.
What is a found poem.
500
In "anyone lived in a pretty how town," what is Cummings criticizing?
What is the mundane sameness that plagues so many people in America.
500
singing
(________________)
for which girl art thou flowers bringing?