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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The fourth stanza of Sister Maude says that the speaker's father may rest where?
2. "Until the ancient race of Time be run," what shall morning be in The One Certainty?
3. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
4. Who is at the resting place of the speaker in Up-Hill?
5. What does the speaker command to sing in the first stanza of The First Spring Day?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Goblin Market, one theme which emerges from the overall story is the strength of and relation between love and sacrifice. In a well-developed essay analyze the portrayal of love and love's manifestation by sacrifice. How is love portrayed in the poem? Why is sacrifice necessary to love? Against what do love and sacrifice contrast? What sort of actions accompany true love and genuine sacrifice? The etymological root of sacrifice means to "make sacred"; how is this portrayed and demonstrated in the characters and actions of Goblin Market? What does the poem demonstrate about the relationships between love, sacrifice, and human nature?
Essay Topic 2
As Rossetti's poems turn more and more to religious devotion, the tone of her poems remains the same, but the content changes. Rather than have her speakers evince a desire for earthly love, they seek out sanctification and spiritual justification. In a rigorously developed and planned analytical essay, examine this transformation in desire. How are the earlier and later poems similar? How are they the same? What unites them? What distinguishes them? How are the later poems in some way a fulfillment of the earlier? What do the two sorts of desires reveal about human nature? What does the transformation in poetry reveal about human nature?
Essay Topic 3
In A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break, a poetic motif of one part changing the significance of the poem as a whole was unveiled. Where A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break performs this change on a single word, deprecate, this poetic transformation can be seen in other poems as well, such as the final stanza in Cousin Kate, the last line in Spring, the sestet of any sonnet, and the last line of the second poem entitled Song. Choose a few poems that employ this motif and explicate in a carefully developed essay how they influence the reading of poetry. What do these poems demonstrate about poetry? What relation does the part have to the whole? What relation does the whole have to the part? How do the two effect one another? What do these effects reveal about the reading of poetry?
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