How does the poem portray time?

What does the urn symbolize in the poem?

Which of the following best captures a central theme of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?

How does the poem end? (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

What is the setting of the poem? (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)

Why did Gray move from Peterhouse to Pembroke College?

What is alliteration?

What metrical pattern does Sonnet 121 follow?

What is the main message in the closing lines of the sonnet?

What does the line “they that level / At my abuses reckon up their own” suggest?

What does the speaker mean by saying “I am that I am”?

What does Shelley wish for at the end of the poem?

Which of the following comparisons does Shelley NOT make to describe the skylark’s song?

According to Shelley, why is the skylark's song superior to human poetry?

What literary device is most prominent in Shelley’s address to the skylark throughout the poem?

What is the central theme of Shelley’s “To a Skylark”?

What theme is most strongly presented in this part of the poem?

According to Shelley, how does the skylark differ from humans?

What emotion does Shelley primarily express towards the skylark in Part 5?

What literary device is used in the phrase "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought"?

What does Shelley mean by the line "Our sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught"?

What theme ties all the similes (poet, maiden, glow-worm, rose) together?

Why does Shelley describe human songs like wedding hymns as “an empty vaunt”?

What does the speaker wish to learn from the skylark in Lines 61–65?

In Line 61, why does the speaker use the phrase “Sprite or Bird”?

What idea is emphasized in the lines comparing the skylark’s music to spring showers and flowers?

In the rose simile (Lines 51–55), what does the “too much sweet” suggest about beauty or art?

What is the main function of the “glow-worm” image in Lines 46–50?

In the simile comparing the skylark to a “high-born maiden,” what does the song represent?

What literary device is most prominent in the repeated use of “Like a” in the comparisons?

In Lines 36–40, what does the skylark's song symbolize?

What is the tone of the poem "To a Skylark"?

What kind of learning does Shelley wish for in the closing lines of the poem?

How does Shelley contrast human emotion with the skylark’s experience?

What does Shelley imply when he says, “What thou art we know not”?

What metaphor is used to describe the skylark’s voice filling the world?

Why does the speaker compare the skylark to a “star of Heaven” in daylight?

What is suggested by the simile “Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun”?

What is emphasized by the line “And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest”?

What poetic technique is used when the speaker addresses the skylark directly?

How does Shelley describe the skylark in the opening stanza?

What best describes the emotional tone of Shelley’s poem “Lament”?

In what way does Shelley’s view of nature differ from Wordsworth’s?

Adonais is an elegy written in memory of which poet?

What is the theme of Epipsychidion?

Which of Shelley’s works is based on a real tragic story and involves human characters?

What is a central idea in Shelley’s philosophy as presented in the poem?

How is the tyrant Jove overthrown in Prometheus Unbound?

Who or what does Prometheus symbolize in Prometheus Unbound?

What theme dominates Shelley’s poem Alastor?