Which features make this an example of a Shakespearean sonnet? Select three options.
Which best describes the speaker of "London's Summer Morning"?
Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 19.”Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,5And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,To the wide world and all her fading sweets;But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:O! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;10Him in thy course untainted do allowFor beauty's pattern to succeeding men.Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,My love shall in my verse ever live young.
Read the excerpt from "London's Summer Morning." Now pastry dainties catch the eye minute Of humming insects, while the limy snare Waits to enthrall them. What does this excerpt from the poem describe?
Read the excerpt from "The Author to Her Book".“Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth didst by my side remain,Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad, expos’d to public view”What is the rhyme scheme in these lines?
What is one difference in the themes of "Harlem" and "The Weary Blues"?
Which sentence demonstrates the connotative meaning of “family”?
Read the descriptions of rhyme schemes below.Free verse: poetry that does not use a consistent rhyme schemeIambic pentameter: a poetic rhyme scheme in which each rhyming line has ten syllablesBlank verse: poetry that uses unrhymed iambic pentameterRhyming couplets: a series of two consecutive lines that rhyme in a poemBased on the descriptions, what rhyme scheme does the poem "Harlem" use?
What is the central idea of Langston Hughes’s poem “Dreams”?
Langston Hughes’s poem “Dreams” praises dreams, while “Dawn in New York” praises
In Langston Hughes’s poem “Dreams,” a “broken-winged bird” is a metaphor for
Read the first stanza of "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls."The tide rises, the tide falls,The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;Along the sea-sands damp and brownThe traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls.Why does the poet most likely use the words “damp and brown” to describe the sands?
What is similar about the love that is expressed in "That I did always love" and "'Why do I love' You, Sir?"
Read the poem “Roses,” by George Eliot. You love the roses—so do I. I wishThe sky would rain down roses, as they rainFrom off the shaken bush. Why will it not?Then all the valley would be pink and whiteAnd soft to tread on. They would fall as lightAs feathers, smelling sweet; and it would beLike sleeping and like waking, all at once! What is the main style difference between “Roses” and "Night"?
Read the stanza from “Deliverance From Another Sore Fit.”“Thou knowest the sorrows that I felt; My plaints and groans were heard of Thee, And how in sweat I seemed to melt Thou help'st and Thou regardest me.” What does the word regardest suggest about the speaker’s attitude toward God?
How are the speakers’ senses of self-esteem similar in "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason" and "Deliverance From Another Sore Fit"?
Which statement best describes the rhyme scheme of "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason"?
Which statement best describes the ways that the speakers in "A Thought on the Inestimable Blessing of Reason" and "Deliverance From Another Sore Fit" achieve contentment?
Langston Hughes yearns for equality in the poem “I Dream A World,” while in the poem “Democracy” he
The speaker in Hughes’s poem “Democracy” encourages people to
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