The primary subject of “Ode to Psyche” is ___________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Shelley’s “Ode to Psyche” is narrated by __________________?

   A. Psyche
   B. Cupid
   C. The author of the poem
   D. Shelley’s childhood self

2. The main thematic focus of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is ____________________?

   A. The nature of death
   B. The French Revolution
   C. The relationship between truth and beauty
   D. The author’s childhood experience

3. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” can be best understood as a poem about _____________?

   A. The passion between a husband and wife
   B. The loss of innocence
   C. The horrors of the French Revolution
   D. How poets can bring about political revolution

4. “Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on ______________?

   A. How pleasures are fleeting and life cannot continue forever
   B. The fall of man into sin
   C. The futility of artistic creation
   D. The unfortunate conclusion of the French Revolution

5. Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ?

   A. Rime royal
   B. Ottava rima
   C. Terza rima
   D. Spenserian Stanza

6. When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only ?

   A. Stanzas I to IV
   B. Stanzas I toV
   C. Stanzas I to VI
   D. Stanzas I to VII

7. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?

   A. its focus on his lost love.
   B. its rejection of scientific progress.
   C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
   D. its development of elements from national folklore.

8. In “Ode to the West Wind,” why does Shelley ask the wind to “make me thy lyre” ?

   A. To help drive his ideas across the universe
   B. To help him reach the afterlife
   C. To help him hear nature’s music
   D. To help him start a new revolutionary war

9. What do Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Coleridge’s “Dejection Ode” have in common ?

   A. An identical rhyme structure
   B. The belief that a person is incapable of change, even as he or she ages
   C. The sense of hope that death will come soon
   D. A shared theme that nature exposes the pain in human life

10. What is the delicate balancing act of Marvell’s\Horatian Ode\ ?

    A. praising Roman virtues whilst endorsing Christian beliefs
    B. praising feminine virtue whilst mocking the fixation on chastity
    C. celebrating Cromwell’s victories whilst inviting sympathy for the executed king
    D. celebrating the Restoration whilst regretting the frivolity of the new regime