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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the second stanza of Another Spring, the speaker says she would find music in which of the following?
2. Where do the eyes of the speaker's lover look in The Convent Threshold?
3. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
4. What will the poem's first (or only) speaker bless in A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break?
5. Upon the skirts of whom does the figure in the speaker's dream tread in The Convent Threshold?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As part of the consistent theme of temptation, The Three Enemies carries on a dialogue between the tempters to sin and the tempted speaker. Examine this poem in a carefully analytical essay, focusing on what the poem delivers as its ultimate signification. What are the temptations the Enemies use? What characterizes the temptations of the Enemies? How do the temptations correspond to the tempter, the particular Enemy? How does the speaker respond? What characterizes the speaker's responses? How do the responses correspond to the particular Enemy? In what way does the speaker conquer the temptations? What does this ultimately signify?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout a great deal of Rossetti's poetry, there is a connection drawn between life and love, between living and loving. This can be seen in At Home, A Triad, A Birthday, After Death, An End, and many others. Explicate in a thoroughly-developed analytical essay the significance of this connection. In what way are the two states or actions comparable? Why would one be linked with the other? What makes the two similar? How is this demonstrated in the various poems of Christina Rossetti? What does this connection reveal about human nature?
Essay Topic 3
A theme primarily exposed in Maude Clare is the contrast between a fleeting, passionate love and a lasting, committed love. This theme does appear, though not so evidently, in other poems, in which the temporality of certain joys is contrasted with more permanent emotions. In a well-developed essay, analyze this theme of contrast in loves. How is each portrayed? With what is passionate love commonly associated? With what is committed love commonly associated? How do the characters associated with each regularly comport themselves? What do these presentations reveal about human nature and its disposition towards love and relationships?
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