Which words from "A Day for Wandering" best indicate that the speaker is happy to be outside?
Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?
Read the excerpt from "A Day for Wandering" by Clinton Scollard. I set apart a day for wandering; I heard the woodlands ring, The hidden white-throat sing, And the harmonic West, Beyond a far hill-crest, Touch its Aeolian string. “Aeolian string” refers to a harp-like instrument that plays when it is placed in the wind. Based on this definition, which statement best describes the speaker’s view of the wind?
Which lines from "Poetry" best indicate that the poet believes that poetry should express authentic thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
Which statement best describes the effect of the free-verse form in "Poetry"?
Read the excerpt from "Poetry." In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, in defiance of their opinion— the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry. What is the theme of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Poetry." nor is it valid to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it. What theme does this excerpt express?
In "Poetry," which words indicate that the poet is frustrated by the general culture of poets and poetry?
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