Which lines from "Poetry" best indicate that the poet believes that poetry should express authentic thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
Read the excerpt from “Birches” by Robert Frost. When I see birches bend to left and right Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen themLoaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.What is the best description of the theme of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from “Autumn” by Jean Starr Untermeyer. Great jars laden with the raw green of pickles,Standing in a solemn row across the back of the porch, Exhaling the pungent dill; What does “laden” mean in this context?
Read the excerpt from "Poetry."In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry. What is the theme of this excerpt?
Which statement best describes the effect of the free-verse form in "Poetry"?
Read the excerpt from "Poetry." When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand: the bat holding on upside down or in quest of something to eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf under a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the base- ball fan, the statistician—What theme does this excerpt express?
Read the excerpt from “Autumn” by Jean Starr Untermeyer. Autumn and dead leaves burning in the sharp air. And winter comforts coming in like a pageant. I shall not forget them:— Great jars laden with the raw green of pickles,Standing in a solemn row across the back of the porch, What is the meaning of the word “pageant” in this context?
Read the excerpt from "Poetry." however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—aboveinsolence and triviality and can presentfor inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.Based on context, what is the most likely definition for “triviality”?
Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?
Which words from "A Day for Wandering" best indicate that the speaker is happy to be outside?
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