Ode on Solitude

Who wrote this poem?

• Alexander Pope

• Alexender Pope

• John Keats

• Frank R. Stockton

Steal from ________________, and not ________________

• the world, a stone

• the tree, sky

Which tones are odes usually written in? Choose 2

• serious

• with an attitude towards the subject

• charming

• Innocent

What is the meaning of native?

• being one's own because of one's birthplace

• produced; made

• a rapid outburst

• like woods or forests

Whose ______ with milk, whose _____ with bread

• herds, fields

• earth, dead

• trees, run

• winter, frost

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Happy the man whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound,

Content to breathe his native air,

In his own ground

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What is the meaning of unlamented? (Choose 2)

• not missed

• not mourned for

• helicopter blades

• central goals and beliefs

According to the speaker of "Ode on Solitude", which of the following makes a man happy?

• living on his own land

• friends and family

• having children

• fame

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,

Thus unlamented let me die,

Steal from the world, and not a stone

Tell where I lie.

(a)  

An ode is a ________

• type of lyric poem that characteristically deals with an important topic.

• pattern of rhyming words