Review Questions

1. Compare Poe and Burns in respect to (a) early education, (b) character, (c) mastery of meter and form, (d) poetic sentiment.

2. Study the meter and the rhyme scheme of The Chambered Nautilus. What variations from the established meter can you discover?

3. Compare L'Allegro with Il Penseroso stanza by stanza, in rhyme and meter. Write in your own words a brief paraphrase of the thought in the two poems.

4. Select from Part Eight the short poem which you best like, and analyze its rhyme, its meter, its thought, and its claims to beauty. Determine if you can the secret of your preference.

5. Can you find in Burke's oration any passages which seem to have poetic merit? Does he ever use an inverted order in his sentences to make them rhythmical and sonorous?

6. In the lyrics of Parts Seven and Eight do you find that figures of speech are abundant ?

7. Compare the selections from Scott with those from Bryant, endeavoring to determine which figure of speech is the favored of each writer and to what source each writer goes most frequently for the illustrations he uses and the

allusions he makes.

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Review Questions

8. What is the meter of The Ancient Mariner? Do you think it appropriate to the peculiar subject of the poem? Was Tennyson happy in the choice of his meter for Enoch Arden? Which of these two meters is best adapted to narrative purposes?

9. What was the immediate source of inspiration to Moore in Those Evening Bells, to Bryant in Robert of Lincoln, to Riley in An Old PlayedOut Song? Upon what emotions in the reader does each one of these call?

10. What are the chief characteristics of Wordsworth's poetry and of the school that followed his ideals.