how many sonnets did william shakespeare write? (reading aloud, 00:30-31)
what are the major themes of shakespeare’s sonnets? (reading aloud, 01:41-48)
what is the theme of shakespeare’s sonnet 18? (2.2. 01:25-33)
there is an ironic twist in the opening two lines of shakespeare’s sonnet 18. what is it? (2.2. 05:32-06:02)
what is the figure of speech used in line 3 (rough winds do shake the darling buds of may)? (2.2. 07:17-08:10)
what are the figures of speech used in line 4 (and summer’s lease hath all too short a date)? (2.2. 09:10-10:15)
what does “the eye of heaven” refer to in line 5 (sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines)? (2.2. 10:21-10:45)
what does the two “this” refer to in the last line (so long lives this, and this gives life to thee)? (2.2. 19:10:-19:23)
what is a sonnet? (2.3. 00:12-02:50)
what is the rhyme scheme of shakespeare’s sonnet 18? (2.3. 02:32-02:50)
when and where was william wordsworth born? (5.2. 00:05-20)
who was the woman, who bore william wordsworth an illegitimate daughter, caroline, in december, 1792? (5.2. 04:02-04:18)
who was the poet wordsworth met daily during 1797 and 1798 to talk about poetry and to plan lyrical ballads, a collection of poems written by the two in close collaboration? (5.2 06:20-06:38)
when was william wordsworth named the poet laureate of england? (5.2. 10:59)
when was wordsworth’s “preface” to lyrical ballads published? (5.3.)
who was a poet according to the "preface"? (5.3. 01:10-01:33)
how does wordsworth define a poem in his "preface"? (5.3. 00:10-00:20)
what does the first image of the poem present when the poet says that “i wandered lonely as a cloud/that floats on high o’er vales and hills” ? (5.6. 01:33-01:50)
what is the metrical design in the first two lines that reinforces the harmonious relationship between subject (“i”) and object (natural elements), humanity and nature? (5.6. 02:00-02:21)
what is the message suggested by the “fluttering and dancing” daffodils in 2nd stanza? (5.6. 03:12-03:26)
when was walt whitman’s leaves of grass first published? (7.2. 00:19-00:27)
which of the four choices is the original line that the poet described himself in the first edition of leaves of grass as a persona created as part of his goal to revolutionize american poetry? (7.2. 01:03-01:16)
when and where was walt whitman born? (7.3. 00:05-00:25)
like other american writers, such as mark twain and ernest hemingway, whitman got much of his education from his newspaper work. how did he educate himself? (7.3. 00:50-01:06)
the 1855 leaves of grass was not well accepted by the reader, but ralph waldo emerson called the book “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that america has yet contributed.” how did he praise the young writer? (7.3. 04:23-05:07)
whitman’s “one’s self” rather than “myself” is an expanded self that he celebrates throughout his leaves of grass. what does it contain? (7.4. 00:44-04:06)
what does the word “en-masse” refer to in the second line of the poem “one’s self i sing”? (7.4. 01:22-01:28)
what is professor james e. miller’s comment on the germ of whitman’s radical innovation in his lyric-epic leaves of grass? (7.4. 04:49-05:57)
what is the figure of speech used in line 6 “of life immense in passion, pulse, and power”? (7.4. 09:06)
whitman says that “my right hand is time, and my left hand is space—both are ample... i am vast.” which poem did whitman refer to ? (7.5. 00:40-01:07)
emily dickinson and walt whitman were contemporaries, but they were totally different. what might be the difference(s) between them? (poetry reading. 00:30-01:30)
how many poems by emily dickinson are collected into ralph w. franklin’s ediction of the poems of emily dickinson (cambridge & london: harvard up, 1998)? (8.1. 00:55-01:31)
where was emily dickinson born? (8.3. 00:05-00:15)
when was emily dickinson’s life essentially withdrawn from society? (8.3. 03:21)
in the poem “i’m nobody, who are you?”(260), the speaker “i” addresses another imaginary “nobody”. what is the poetic form that dickinson used here in this poem? (8.4. 01:00-01:12)
in the first two lines of the poem “the soul selects her own society”(409), the speaker describes the soul shutting a door. what does the image of the soul suggest metaphorically? (8.5. 01:32-02:19)
what is suggested metaphorically in lines 5-6 “unmoved – she notes the chariots – pausing –/at her low gate –”? (8.5. 03:23-03:50)
what does dickinson mean when she writes “this is my letter to the world /that never wrote to me –”? (8.6. 02:18-02:35)
what does “the simple news” refer to in lines 3-4 “the simple news that nature told –/with tender majesty”? (8.6. 02:37-03:15)
how does the poet speaker feel in the last two lines “for love of her – sweet – countrymen –/judge tenderly – of me”? (8.6. 04:24-04:48)
what do woods usually stand for and symbolize in robert frost’s poems? (poetry reading: 01:02-01:46)
where was robert frost born, educated, and where did he die? (9.2. 02:7-02:16)
when was robert frost’s first book of poetry a boy’s will published? (9.2. 06:012-06:23)
how many times did robert frost win pulitzer prize for literature? (9.2. 8:56)
which poem did robert frost recite at the inauguration of president john f. kennedy in 1961? (9.2. 09:12-09:25)
how do you understand metaphorically that robert frost enjoys “the straight crookedness of a good walking stick” in his metrical design? (9.3. 05:17-05:47)
according to frost’s recollection, what does “the darkest evening of the year” mean to him in his poem “stopping by woods on a snowy evening”? (9.4. 02:40-04-58)
who was the contemporary british poet that inspired this poem by robert frost? (9.5. 01:35-02:50)
what does frost mean when he says in the poem that “the fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows”? (9.6. 06:19-06:55)
in frost’s poem “mending wall,” who initiates the yearly spring repair of the wall? and who goes behind hunters (who destroy the wall in other seasons) and makes repairs? (9.7. 04:13-04:34)