What Does The Poem Include That The Artwork Does Not
Question:
Answer: “to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.”
Question: Which words from “Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of sight?
“poisons the air”
“I come again to see”
“through refracting tears”
“the seen, the known”
Answer: “through refracting tears”
Question: Which quotation from the poem “Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?
“Each night she lay down in pain and rose”
“And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
“of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”
Answer: “Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
Question:
Answer: an allusion to conflict
Question: What is a stanza?
a group of lines
a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
words that appeal to the senses
words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
Answer: a group of lines