Fireside Poets Answers

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3

How does each poet use word choice to create tone and imagery?

Answer:

Longfellow combines concrete images with abstract ideas and addresses “us,” giving his poem a serious, preachy tone. Lowell uses “I” and concrete images of birds and changing seasons to create a more personal tone.

4

Did you include key ideas from both poems in your answer? Select any ideas you included.

A
Lowell uses concrete language.
B
Lowell focuses on the image of birds and changing seasons.
C
Longfellow uses both concrete and abstract language.
D
Longfellow uses many images.
E
Longfellow’s speaker addresses “us,” creating an abstract, preachy tone.
F
Lowell uses “I,” creating a personal tone.
5

What tells you that the word “heart” is important in both poems? Analyze word choice, imagery, and structure.

A
The word “heart” is important to each poem’s rhyme scheme and relates to a theme.
B
The word “heart” is a stressed syllable in each poem and part of a key image related to the theme.
C
The word “heart” creates an end rhyme in each poem, and the heart image is concrete and personal.
D
The word “heart” appears in enjambed lines in each poem, emphasizing its importance.
6

Which lines from “A Psalm of Life” contain an example of enjambment? Check all that apply.

A
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
B
But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
C
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!
D
Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.

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