What does the mention of “Neptune taming a seahorse” at the end symbolize?
Who is the historical inspiration behind My Last Duchess?
What does the speaker imagine about himself in the epitaph?
How does the speaker relate to the idea of anonymity?
How do ordinary people find a measure of happiness, according to the poem?
What is the poem’s overall attitude toward ordinary lives?
How does the speaker view the lives of ordinary people compared to those in elite society?
What realization does the speaker have about common people who have died?
What does the phrase "teach the rustic moralist to die" suggest?
What does the speaker imagine at the end of the poem?
What does Ithaca represent in the poem?
What does the setting sun symbolize in the poem?
Identify the poem that begins with these lines:
Five years have past; five summers, ;with the length
Of five long winters !
What is the symbolic contrast between Ulysses and Telemachus?
What is the verse form of Ulysses?
What does Ulysses plan to do at the end of the poem?
What is the significance of the final lines, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"?
What themes does Ulysses primarily explore?
What was the title of Tennyson’s 1830 poetry collection?
The word "rill" in the passage refers to:
What literary device is used in "smiling as in scorn"?
What does the phrase "woeful wan, like one forlorn" indicate about the character?
What is the dream shared by David Diop at the end of Africa?
What does the light stand for in the photograph, in Atwood's poem?
The year in which Wole Soyinka won Nobel Prize in Literature :
-------- if the word great means anything in poetry, this poem is one of the greatest in
the English Language-which critic opined this about Emily Dickens's Because I CouId Not
Stop For Death.
In form. Home Burial by Robert Frost is a:
The theme of Ezekiel's Night of the Scorpion:
Name the poetic collection in which A Prayer for My Daughter was published in 1921 :
The Greek playwright who is referred to in Dover Beach ;
Son of Ulysses to whom he bestowed the charge of his country Ithaca :
Identify the figure of speech in the line from Gray's Elegy :
The ploughman homeward plods weary way
What was the only reward he desired from Heaven?
What does "And Melancholy mark'd him for her own" imply?
What does "Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth" signify?
What does "mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead" imply about the speaker’s attitude?
What does "their sober wishes never learn'd to stray" imply about the villagers?
What does "many a holy text around she strews" suggest?
What do "their name, their years" refer to?
What literary device is used in "Nor cast one longing, ling’ring look behind"?
What literary device is used in "Ev’n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries"?
What does "the parting soul" symbolize in the first line?
What is meant by "Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride"?
What does "Th' applause of list'ning senates to command" suggest?
What is the paradox of immortality in the poem?
What does Keats suggest about imagination in contrast to reality?
What does the phrase "Cold Pastoral" suggest about the urn?
What question does Keats raise about the abandoned town?