A poem mourning someone’s death is called______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

2. Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?

   A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
   B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
   C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
   D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

3. H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?

   A. Objectivist poetry
   B. Futurist poetry
   C. Imagist poetry
   D. Vorticist poetry

4. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?

   A. They both address the theme of death.
   B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
   C. They are both set in rural New England.
   D. All of these answers

5. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?

   A. His political views
   B. His will to imaginative freedom
   C. His will to sexual freedom
   D. Both B and C

6. In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?

   A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
   B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
   C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
   D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this

7. After the death of Christopher Marlowe who completed his unfinished poem “Hero and Leander” ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Nash
   C. George Chapman
   D. Thomas More

8. Which poem ends ’I shall but love thee better after death’ ?

   A. How do I love thee
   B. Ode to a Grecian urn
   C. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
   D. Let me not to the marriage of true minds

9. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?

   A. The Legend of Good Women
   B. The House of Fame
   C. The Book of Duchess
   D. Troilus and Criseyde

10. Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell’s 1945 poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” ?

    A. The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother’s womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
    B. The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.
    C. The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.
    D. The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.