Unit 10 Review

Question 1

William Carlos Williams’ “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime” is characterized by

Answer 1

the direct and specific way he talks about his subject

Question 2

in William Carlos William’s poem “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,” the widow contrasts

Answer 2

“grief” in my heart today with my “joy” formerly

Question 3

the approach e.e. cummings uses by abandoning traditional forms of spelling, grammar, and spacing in his writing has the Imagist effect of

Answer 3

making the image he is creating more apparent

Question 4

to make his image more alive, the poet e.e. cummings, in his poem “in Just,” creates new words such as

Answer 4

mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful, baloonman

Question 5

in his poem “in Just” e.e. cummings creates an image of spring with sights and sounds

Answer 5

the baloonman whistles

Question 6

what figure of speech does Moore incorporate in Lines 21-22 of her poem “poetry”?

Answer 6

simile

Question 7

Marianne Moore may have included Lines 23-24 in her poem “Poetry” because

Answer 7

she was a baseball fan

Question 8

according to Marianne Moore in “Poetry,” to be interested in poetry you must

Answer 8

demand the raw material of poetry plus that which si genuine

Question 9

the message of Marianne Moore’s poem “poetry” is that

Answer 9

good poetry is genuine, useful, and real

Question 10

in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Lines 40-44 about Prufrock’s thinning hair, arms, and legs indicate

Answer 10

that Prufrock worries about growing old, even though he keeps telling himself “there is time”

Question 11

Eliot uses the image of “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet” in Lines 27 of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to illustrate

Answer 11

Prufrock’s need to “prepare” a face to hide behind when meeting other people