In-class Homework Task - 9-4-23 (Forever is Composed of Nows)

What is the tone of the poem Forever – is composed of Nows – by Emily Dickinson?

• Melancholic
• Romantic

• Pessimistic
• Optimistic

Who is the writer of the poem Forever – is composed of Nows ?

• Robert Frost
• Emily Dickinson
• William Shakespeare
• Edgar Allan Poe

Which choice below is true about Dickinson's poem Forever – is composed of Nows –?

• The poem is about the concept of time
• The poem is about the concept of love
• The poem is about the concept of death
• The poem is about the concept of nature

Which choice below is true about Dickinson and her use of punctuation in the poem Forever – is composed of Nows –?

• Dickinson uses punctuation such as dashes to create pauses and emphasis in her poem.

• Dickinson does not use any punctuation in the poem, and follows traditional poetry norms.

• The poem uses the capitalization of letters to draw our attention to their possible double meanings.

• Dickinson uses punctuations such as hyphens to confuse the reader

What is TRUE and what is FALSE about the Dickinson's poem Forever – is composed of Nows –?

Organize these options into the right categories:

Groups:

(a) TRUE

,

(b) FALSE

• Dickinson followed traditional grammar and sentence structure in the poem

• Em-dashes are used

• Dickinson uses a lot of en-dashes in the poem

• Words are capitalized mid-sentence to give emphasis

• There are 4 stanzas.

• Each stanza has four lines, making it a quatrain.

What is one similarity between Dickinson's poem Forever – is composed of Nows – and Fame is a Bee?

• Both poems discuss the concept of time and its fleeting nature
• Both poems are about the beauty of nature
• Both poems discuss the concept of fame and its fleeting nature
• Both poems are about the beauty of bees

Correctly label

a

b

c

Capital Letters

em-dash

Title

Which choice best describes Emily Dickinson's upbringing?

• She was raised in a wealthy family with strong community ties
• She was raised in a poor family with no community ties
• She was an orphan raised by her grandmother
• She was raised in a middle-class family with few community ties

What is one similarity between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson?

• Both were born in the same year
• Both wrote in the same poetic form
• They are both considered to be influential and iconic poets of the nineteenth century

• Both lived in the same city

Emily Dickinson proves her point that ​ (a)   in her poem, Forever – is Composed of Nows, referring to “​ (b)   ” as more significant than the ​ (c)  

• time is fleeting
• time is constant
• life is easy
• nows
• Forever
• future
• past
• current time