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
Related Mcqs:
- What author defines the function of poetry with reference to the Horatian dictum of “to teach and delight” ?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Sir Walter Raleigh
C. John Lyly
D. Sir Philip Sidney - 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 - The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?
A. On the slave trade
B. On romantic philosophy
C. On the creativity of human mind
D. On supernatural elements in poetry - 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 - 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 - “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 - 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 - 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 - ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem ?
A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Shakespeare
D. Keats - ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by__________________?
A. Shelley
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Blake
