Fireside Poets Answers

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Which poem has the rhythm of marching?

Answer:

A Psalm of Life

Which poem includes many concrete images?

Answer:

The First Snowfall

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

Lowell uses concrete language.

Lowell focuses on the image of birds and changing seasons.

Longfellow uses both concrete and abstract language.

Longfellow uses many images.

Longfellow’s speaker addresses “us,” creating an abstract, preachy tone.

Lowell uses “I,” creating a personal tone.

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

The word “heart” is important to each poem’s rhyme scheme and relates to a theme.

The word “heart” is a stressed syllable in each poem and part of a key image related to the theme.

The word “heart” creates an end rhyme in each poem, and the heart image is concrete and personal.

The word “heart” appears in enjambed lines in each poem, emphasizing its importance.

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

Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Still, like muffled drums, are beatingFuneral marches to the grave.