IGCSE English: The Flower Fed Buffalo by Vachel Lindsay

A poem such as 'The Flower -Fed Buffalo' which mourns the death or loss of a creature or person could be described as:

• An Elegy

• An Ode

• A Sonnet

• A Villanelle

The poem eulogises the disappearance of buffalo from:

• Western Europe

• North America

• Southern Europe

• Northern Canada

Vachel Lindsay was known for writing poetry which is best experienced by being

• Read silently

• Read in groups

• Read aloud

• Read alone

The repetition of f sounds in the title 'flower-fed buffaloes ' and words such as 'left us' and 'blackfeet' may suggest the sounds of the buffalo eating by using

• Liquid alliteration

• Plosive alliteration

• Fricative alliteration

• Guttural alliteration

Which words in the poem use the sense of smell to recreate the fresh, fragrant vanished world of the buffalo?

• tossing, blooming

• blooming, perfumed

• flower fed

• lie low

What word means the vast, open grasslands of the

American West?

• locomotives

• perfumed grass

• wheat

• prairie

What happens to the rhyme scheme as the poem progresses (which perhaps suggests the disappearance of the buffalo)?

• It sticks to an ABAB pattern throughout

• It is made up of rhyming couplet

• It starts with a regular ABAB pattern but disappears by the end of the poem

• It has no rhyme scheme as it uses free verse

The use of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, the rhymes and using 15 lines (one more than 14) suggest this may be a slightly altered and stretched version of a

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Villanellle

• Sestina

Which two words from the poem may represent a vanished past juxtaposed with the progress of modernity?

• Spring and Swept

• Wheels and wheat

• Gore and bellow

• Buffalo and locomotive

The Blackfeet and Pawnees mentioned near the end of the poem are

• types of buffalo which became extinct

• types of wild flowers the buffalo fed in

• native American tribes who lived alongside the buffalo

• The European colonisers moving to the west of America