"A Dirge" and Elegies

What is an elegy usually written about?

• Loss and Death

• Love and Happiness

• Political Events

• Nature

What is usually the structure of a traditional elegy?

• A poem that follows the 3 stages of grief

• A poem that has a beginning, middle, and end

• A poem that contains a series of questions

• A poem that is written in a sonnet format

An elegy is usually written in...

• Couplets that rhyme

• Quatrains that rhyme

• An Octave with no rhyme scheme

• Free Verse

An elegy must ALWAYS follow a strict format

• False

• True

Which line is an alliteration?

• "cuckoo's calling"

• "lambs were cropping"

• "winds go sighing"

• "green in the cluster"

What line proves that the poem is about a person dying too young?

• "You should have died at the apples' dropping"

• "Why did you die when the lambs were cropping"

• "For sweet things dying"

• "You should have come to the cuckoo's calling"

Line 1 indicates the person was born in winter. What season does Line 2 indicate the author feels they should have been born in?

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

What is the tone of this poem?

• Morose

• Proud

• Happy

• Mocking