Comparing Poetry and Art Answers
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Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” and then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.Today as the news from Selma and Saigonpoisons the air like fallout,I come again to seethe serene, great picture that I love.
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a sense of peace or comfortB
an allusion to conflictC
a chaotic viewpointD
a sense of movement or fluidity22
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Which line from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden includes an allusion?
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“Today as the news from Selma and Saigon”B
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.”C
“Here space and time exist in light”D
“Here is the aura of that world”23
Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the detail from Claude Monet’s painting Water Lilies.Today as the news from Selma and Saigonpoisons the air like fallout,I come again to seethe serene, great picture that I love.
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to view art purely for art’s sakeB
to escape unpleasant newsC
to be exposed to stark realityD
to escape poisonous air24
Which lines from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of alliteration?
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“among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, / who painted herself a present–”B
“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset / her spine resides in, that flaming pillar–”C
“Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead. / And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”D
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”Did you find these answers helpful?
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