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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the speaker command to sing in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
2. The first thing wondered by the poem's speaker in the first stanza of The First Spring Day is what?
3. Which of the following did the passing of "it" NOT leave the speaker of May?
4. The speaker of the poem laments in the third stanza of Another Spring that all her past results in what word?
5. What adjective is used to describe today in the final stanza of Another Spring?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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