Poetry

Question 1

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae

Answer 1

1896

Question 2

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae translation

Answer 2

I am not as I was under the reign of Cynara

Question 3

what sort of rhythm does Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae have?

Answer 3

12 syllable French line- the Alexandrine

Question 4

where does the line Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae come from?

Answer 4

Horace’s Odes, Book 4, 1

Question 5

what was the child actress called who Dowson was obsessed with?

Answer 5

Minnie Terry- devoted to her from when she was 7

Question 6

How does Keats hasten his rhythm?

Answer 6

Uses three tetrameters followed by a final, truncated line of only 4/5 syllables

Question 7

Where does Keats borrow his question-and-response from?

Answer 7

Earlier folk ballads

Question 8

Who did Keats write his poem for?

Answer 8

Fanny Brawne

Question 9

when was La Belle Dame sans Merci published?

Answer 9

1820

Question 10

When was At an Inn published?

Answer 10

1898

Question 11

What is the general rhythm of The Ruined Maid?

Answer 11

Iamb with anapaestic trimeter

Question 12

When was The Ruined Maid published?

Answer 12

1901

Question 13

When was Remember published?

Answer 13

1862

Question 14

What type of poem is Remember?

Answer 14

Petrarchan sonnet

Question 15

What were Rossetti’s brothers a part of?

Answer 15

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Question 16

What were the women in Rossetti’s family?

Answer 16

High Church Anglicans

Question 17

What is the rhythm of She Walks in Beauty?

Answer 17

Iambic tetrameter

Question 18

when was She Walks in Beauty published?

Answer 18

1815

Question 19

What is the rhythm of The Garden of Love?

Answer 19

First two stanzas are loose anapaestic trimeter with abab- third stanza begins same way but switches in last two lines to tetrameter, no rhyme

Question 20

What is the structure of To His Coy Mistress?

Answer 20

Iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets

Question 21

What was the name of Marvell’s housekeeper?

Answer 21

Mary Palmer

Question 22

Which critic claims that the relationship in Rochester’s poem resembles that of “an errant sinner and God”?

Answer 22

Marianne Thormahlen

Question 23

Who is ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ written for?

Answer 23

Agnes (Nancy) McLehose

Question 24

When was ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ written?

Answer 24

1791

Question 25

What gives ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ a downbeat quality?

Answer 25

Feminine endings and rhymes (lines and rhymes that end with an unstressed syllable)

Question 26

When was ‘The Scrutiny’ published?

Answer 26

1641

Question 27

Who argues that ‘The Scrutiny’ can be read as a challenge to other witty men rather than as a work addressed to a particular woman?

Answer 27

Luke McBratney

Question 28

Who considers a sexual reading of ‘The Scrutiny’?

Answer 28

Luke McBratney

Question 29

Who suggests that there is progression and subtle variation in ‘Ae Fond Kiss’?

Answer 29

Luke McBratney

Question 30

What does topaz represent?

Answer 30

Chastity

Question 31

What do diamonds represent?

Answer 31

Steadfastedness