Quiz 4 “Sound & Sense” & Romantic Poetry (1)

1. Which of the following is NOT a heroic couplet? 1.True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance 2.A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake drags its slow length along. 3.'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Heroic Couplet lines in iambic pentameter rhymed in pairs True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake drags its slow length along 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

2. “The Sick Rose” O rose, thou art sick! The invi sible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. How is the worm’s destruction presented? (Choose the wrong one) 1.It is welcome. 2.It is presented with regular iambic sound pattern. 3.It is paradoxically presented. 4.It has sexual connotations.

3. London I wander thro' each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man. In every Infants cry of fear. In every voice; in every ban. The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackening Church appalls. And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse. (12:39) Which of the following images are NOT symbolic of London’s social institutions? 1.charter’d Thames 2.Blackening church 3.Youthful harlots curse 4.every cry of every Man

4. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud What makes the following stanza different from the rest of the poem: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. 1. It is the only merry part. 2. The speaker feels accompanied by the daffodils only in this stanza. 3. This is the only stanza that shows the speaker reflecting on his past memory.

5. Ode on a Grecian Urn Choose the Wrong interpretation 1. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. This is to confirm the absolute value of the urn. 2. In the poem the urn has been addressed both as a human (“bride” “foster child”) and as an object (“silent form,” “cold pastoral”). 3. In the poem the speaker goes through an empathic process (entering the urn’s scene) to address the figures on the urn. 4. The poem’s turning point is in the end of stanza three, where the speaker mentions human sufferings from passion.