who was apollo in greek mythology? (1.1. 02:26-3:22)
what did horace mean when he said that “the poet has mingled profit with pleasure by delighting the reader at once and instructing him”? (1.1. 04:49-05:02)
where does the pleasure of reading poetry come from? (1.2. 00:33-00:48)
how does an image come to us? (1.2. 01:46-02:01)
what is robert browning’s “meeting at night” about? what is the theme of this poem? (1.2. 03:40-41)
“poetry is founded on surprise: the surprise of regaining something that was there but we failed to notice.” whose definition of poetry is this? (1.2. 15:07-16:00)
what do we mean when we say that robert frost’s simplicity is deceptive? (1.3. 00:23-00:44)
what does robert frost mean when he says that “i dropped to an everyday level of diction that even [william] wordsworth kept above.” (1.3. 01:57-02:42)
how many british and american poets will be focused in this course? (1.4. 00:50-01:10)
why do we read all these masterpieces? (1.4. 00:08-00:31)
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)
what kind of poetry is john milton’s paradise lost? (3.2 00:35-00:44)
it is said that milton’s sonnet 19 was written soon after he became totally blind and he had not become accustomed to a life in darkness. when was it written? (3.4. 00:05)
what did milton mean when he said in the opening line “when i consider how my light is spent”? what is the figure of speech used here in this line? (3.4. 01:14-01:46)
what are the figures of speech used in line 3 “and that one talent which is death to hide”? (3.4. 02:28-07:33)
why does the turn of thought come in the middle of line 8 instead of the beginning of line 9? (3.4. 13:10-14:10)
what does milton mean when he said “who best/ bear his mild yoke, they serve him best” in lines 10-11? (3.4. 15:07-15:25)
what does the word “wait” refer to in the last line “they also serve who only stand and wait”? (3.4. 16:51-17:42)
the speaker in this sonnet searches for and finds a way to serve god acceptably. what kind of motif is this called? (3.5. 00:56-01:16)
why does the key verb “serve” appear three times in this sonnet? (3.5. 01:46-02:18)
what does the “man’s first disobedience” mean in the opening of milton’s paradise lost? (3.6. 02:32-02:46)
in paradise lost, milton’s subject is “man’s first disobedience” to god and the consequent loss of eden. what does the word “fruit” suggest in the opening line? what is the figure of speech used? (3.5. 01:35)
1. what does a valediction mean? (4.1. 06:21)
what is a metaphysical conceit? (4.1. 08:09-08:26)
why did john donne take no degree both at oxford and cambridge? (4.2. 00:47-01:05)
what eminent appointment did john donne receive in 1621? (4.2. 07:41-07:52)
who was not a metaphysical poet of the 17th century below? (4.3 00:06-00:18)
what does the “moving of th’ earth” refer to in line 9 “moving of th’earth brings harms and fears”? (4.4. 06:25-06:45)
what quality does the conceit of gold suggest in “an expansion,/like gold to airy thinness beat”? (4.4. 12:29-13:11)
what does the conceit of a drafting compass suggest in lines 25-28? (4.4. 13:20-13:14:31)
donne often wrote about death. what kind of death does the poet use as a conceit for his upcoming departure on a journey when he says that “virtuous men pass mildly away” in the beginning of this poem? (4.5. 00:14-42)
the poet celebrates the “refined” love between his wife and him by a contrast with the “dull sublunary lovers’ love.” what kind of love does the poet celebrate in this poem? (4.5. 00:42-01:45)
science is an important theme of this poem. how does donne dramatize his poetic presentation of science in this poem? (4.5. 04:32-05:16)
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)
what does the title mean in keats's “on first looking into chapman’s homer”? (reading aloud 02:23-02:26)
which figure of speech is used as a major one when keats wrote about the season in his poem “to autumn”? (reading aloud 04:00-05:58)
how many sonnets did john keats write all together? (6.3. 01:02)
how old was keats when he wrote this famous sonnet? (6.3. 01:13)
who introduced keats to chapman’s translation of homer in 1816? (6.3. 01:50)
in what form of sonnet was this poem written, in which the theme of exploration dominates the octave and that of discovery in the sestet? (6.3. 02:55-03:19)
what does the metaphor of the “realms of gold” imply in the first line of this poem? (6.3. 04:16-04:48)
what do the “states and kingdoms” refer to metaphorically in the second line? (6.3.04:50-05:06)
what is the function of the word “then” at the beginning of line 9? (6.3. 10:09-10:55)
what is the major figure of speech used in the sestet instead of the metaphor of the poet as a literary adventurer in the octave? (6.3. 10:55-11:13)
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)
“poetry tends to express the universal.” who is the author of this remark? (week i)
“poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason.” who defines poetry in this way? (week 1)
“poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the best minds…a poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. ” who is the author of this definition of poetry? (week 1)
who was born in stratford-upon-avon, warwickshire, in england on april 26, 1564? (week 2)
“so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, /so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ” where do these two lines come from? (week 2)
what is the theme of william shakespeare’s sonnet 18? (week 2)
for which poem is john milton best known? (week 3)
“doth god exact day-labor, light denied”. where does this line of poetry come from? (week 3)
how do you interpret the word “wait” in the last line “they also serve who only stand and wait”? (week 3)
how many years did john donne spend both in oxford and camridge universities? (week 4)
which of the following is a poem by john donne? (week 4)
what is the figure of speech used by john donne in such lines as “if they be two, they are two so/as stiff twin compasses are two”? (week 4)
when was william wordsworth’s “preface” to lyrical ballads published? (week 5)
which of the followings is william wordsworth’s definition of poetry? (week 5)
what does “that inward eye”?mean in these two lines “they flash upon that inward eye/which is the bliss of solitude”? (week 5)
how old was john keats when he passed away? (week 6)
which of the following sonnets was written by john keats? (week 6)
what figure of speech is used in the first line “much have i traveled in the realms of gold”? (week 6)
who was considered the “father of modern american poetry”? (week 7)
walt whitman wrote only one book, but it took his whole life. what is the book of poetry called? (week 7)
“i celebrate myself, and sing myself?.” where does this line come from? (week 7)
who was considered the “mother of modern american poetry”? (week 8)
which of the following poems was not written by emily dickinson? (week 8)
what is the poetic form of the poem “i’m nobody! who are you”? (week 8)
when and where did robert frost publish his first book of poetry a boy’s will? (week 9)
when was robert frost invited to recite his poetry at the inauguration of president john f. kennedy? (week 9)
which of the following poems was not written by robert frost? (week 9)
who defines prose as “words in their best order” and poetry as “the best words in the best order”?
what figure of speech is used in this line “rough winds do shake the darling buds of may”?
robert frost says that “the fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.” where does this line come from?