1. Mrs. McVay AP English Literature and Composition
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The Eros Dilemma
Mrs. McVay
AP English Literature and Composition
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2. “Eros” – Stanza One - by Robert Bridges
1. What is the point of view
of the speaker? What is the
speaker looking at?
2. Why does the speaker state,
"Why hast thou nothing in thy face?"
3. Explain how Eros is the
"idol of the human race" and the
"tyrant of the human heart."
4. Explain the metaphorical image,
"flower of lovely youth that art."
5. Explain how Eros "standest in thy
youth an image of eternal truth.“
Eternal truth is a symbol for what?
6. What is the mood and tone toward Eros so far?

3. “Eros” – Stanza One - by Robert Bridges
7. Look up the definition of the words - exuberant, chaste, and sheen.
8. Explain "exuberant flesh so fair."
9. What would Pheidias
do to compare?
10. Explain "ere from his
chaste marmoreal form."
11. How does time
decay the warm colors?
12. Explain how
"starry sheen
of nakedness" relates to
"thy proud dress."

4. “Eros” – Stanza Two - by Robert Bridges
1. Look up the definition of christen, nought, & guile.
2. Explain the image "surely thy body is thy mind."
What literary element is this image that is used
throughout this stanza?
3. Explain what
the speaker means
by stating,
"in thy face
is nought to find,
only thy soft
unchristen'd smile."

5. “Eros” - Stanza Two - by Robert Bridges
4. Explain how Eros' smile
"shadows neither love nor guile."
5. Explain how Eros' smile shadows
"shameless will and power immense
in secret sensuous
innocence."
6. How has the
mood and tone
changed
in this stanza?

6. “Eros” – Stanza Three by Robert Bridges
1. Explain why the speaker
states that Eros is
"the king of joy."
2. Explain why the speaker asks
Eros, "what is thy thought,"
and then declares,
"I dream thou knowest it is nought."
3. Explain the mythological allusion
when the speaker wishes Eros
"wouldst in darkness come."
4. What literary device does "but" introduce?
5. How does Eros "makest the light" where'er" he goes?

7. “Eros” – Stanza Three by Robert Bridges
6. Explain what the speaker is referring to by "victim of thy grace.“
7. Why is it that
"none who e'er long'd
for thy embrace hath
cared to look upon
" Eros' face?
8. What is the meaning
and pathos of this final ironic twist?
9. What is the speaker saying about Eros?
10. How does it relate to the theme?

8. “Eros” – Stanza One by Anne Stevenson
1. Look up the
definition of askew.
2. What is the point of
view of the first speaker?
3. What is the connation
of the word thug?
4. Why would someone
usually have a
broken nose?
6. Explain the image of
Eros having "squinty eyes."

9. “Eros” – Stanza One by Anne Stevenson
5. What is the usual connotation of bully?
6. What tone and mood is created when the speaker calls Eros "my bully boy."
7. Explain what is meant by "boxer lips" and "patchy wings askew."
8. What is the complete
visual image of Eros
being presented
in this stanza?

10. “Eros” – Stanza Two by Anne Stevenson
1. Explain the connotations
of the words "Madam" and
"brute" in the context
that they are used by Eros.
2. Explain "the brute you
see is what long overuse
has made of me."
3. Explain the image of "my face that so offends you is the sum of blows your lust delivered one by one.
4. What effect is created by having "Is the sum" and "One by one" visually on separate lines?
5. What is Eros really saying to the speaker?

11. “Eros” – Stanza Three by Anne Stevenson
1. Look up the definition of
gloss (verb), archetypes,
visage, & dissolve.
2. Explain "we slaves
who are immortal...and
are the archetypes."
3. Explain what Eros
means when he states
that we...gloss your fate."
4. Explain how is Eros
one of the archetypes
that "you create."

12. “Eros” – Stanza Three by Anne Stevenson
5. Explain the last lines - "Better my battered visage, bruised but hot, than love dissolved in loss or left to rot."
6. What is the effect of the rhyme scheme on the 6th & 8th lines of stanzas one, two and three of the words, "you," "askew," "sum," "one," "hot," “or rot"?
7. What is Eros saying about love? What is the theme?

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