“Ode to a Nightingale” focuses on ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?

   A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
   B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
   C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
   D. a and c only

3. The styles of The Owl and the Nightingale and Ancrene Riwle show what about the poetry and prose written around the year 1200 ?

   A. They were written for sophisticated and well-educated readers.
   B. Writing continued to benefit only readers fluent in Latin and French.
   C. Their readers’ primary language was English.
   D. A and C only

4. 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

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

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

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

   A. The possibility of sudden death
   B. The expansion of consciousness
   C. The relationship between art and humanity
   D. The death of Byron

7. 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

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 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

10. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

    A. Alexander Pope
    B. William Collins
    C. Thomas Gray
    D. Ben Jonson