Poetry 3: Nature and Art Quiz
1. “ This is all you have owned,” the speaker in “Earth” says. What does “this” mean? 1. The beautiful scenery of moon light on our earth 2. The comparison of our veins to rivulets 3. Interacting with nature such as swifts, moon and ants 4. owning a black tree.
2. Which of the following is NOT part of the descriptions of the snake in “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” 1. It is as fast as a shaft 2. It is sinister like Satan 3. It likes to be in a boggy area 4. It sends chills down the speaker’s spine.
3. Sound Pattern in "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (1865) Choose the WRONG one When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. 1. The poem has a lot of explosive sounds in the first four lines. 2. Its 2 nd four lines produce mellifluous sound effects with m and open vowels. 3. The poem is rhymed and with regular line length.
4. Which is the characteristics of "Mus é e des Beaux Arts“? 1. It describes the painting skills of the three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 2. It does not give any examples from these paintings. 3. The "white legs“ in the 2 nd stanza are those of the young Jesus. 4. Its language is deliberately unpoetic, its rhymes hidden among those unrhymed sounds.
5. “Anecdote of the Jar”: Choose the correct interpretation 1. The jar is completely separated from its surrounding, over which it dominates. 2. The jar in the poem is a deadly human artifact which destroys nature. 3. Nature in the poem is domesticated and productive. 4. The poem is a free verse.