Unit 2 Module 1

Read “My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold” by William Wordsworth. Which of these themes does the poem contain?

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.

• love of nature

• the cycle of life

• adoration of God

• the wisdom of old age

Read the first stanza of “Mutability” by Percy Shelley. What is the theme of the stanza?

The flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow dies;

All that we wish to stay

Tempts and then flies.

What is this world's delight?

Lightning that mocks the night,

Brief even as bright.

• nature’s plenty

• the permanence of beauty

• the frailty of beautiful things

• the beauty of a stormy night

Read the excerpt from “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” by Edward Lear. What is the rhyme scheme?

The Pobble who has no toes

Swam across the Bristol Channel;

But before he set out he wrapped his nose

In a piece of scarlet flannel.

For his Aunt Jobiska said "No harm

Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;

And it's perfectly known that a Pobble's toes

Are safe,—provided he minds his nose!"

• abcb efgf

• abbc dede

• abab ccdd

• abbc deed

Read “Wild Asters” by Sara Teasdale. What is the syllable count of the poem’s two stanzas?

In the spring I asked the daisies

If his words were true,

And the clever, clear-eyed daisies

Always knew.

Now the fields are brown and barren,

Bitter autumn blows,

And of all the stupid asters

Not one knows.

• 7-5-3-7, 7-5-3-7

• 8-5-8-3, 8-5-8-3

• 6-4-6-4, 4-5-5-4

• 7-6-6-7, 7-6-6-7

Read the first stanza of “The Tiger” by William Blake. What is the syllable count of each of the four lines in the excerpt?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

• 7-7-7-8

• 7-8-6-7

• 7-8-7-8

• 7-6-7-6

Read “Ah! Sunflower” by William Blake. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme?

Ah, sunflower, weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun;

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away with desire,

And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,

Arise from their graves, and aspire

Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

• aabb dede

• acab babc

• abab cdcd

• abcd abcd

In this excerpt from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield, which line contains an image that could stand for death?

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;

And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,

And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking,

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,

To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,

And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

• I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

• And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

• To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;

• And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.

Which line in this excerpt from “Pippa Passes” by Robert Browning uses a metaphor?

The year's at the spring

And day's at the morn:

Morning's at seven;

The hillside's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn:

God's in His heaven—

All's right with the world!

• The year's at the spring

• The hillside's dew-pearled;

• God's in His heaven—

• All's right with the world!

Which two words in this excerpt from “Preludes” by T.S. Eliot appeal to a person's sense of hearing?

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o’clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

• smell

• shower

• grimy

• beat

• stamps

In the poem “A Divine Image” by William Blake, which line is a metaphor that compares human beings to a workshop for molding metals?

Cruelty has a human heart,

And Jealousy a human face;

Terror the human form divine,

And Secrecy the human dress.

The human dress is forged iron,

The human form a fiery forge,

The human face a furnace sealed,

The human heart its hungry gorge.

• And Secrecy the human dress.

• The human form a fiery forge,

• The human heart its hungry gorge.