The Purple Cow
(Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least.)
I never saw a Purple Cow;
I never hope to See One;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
I'd rather See than Be One.
What is the main difference between "The Purple Cow" and Frost's poem "Mending Wall"?
the use of rhyming in "The Purple Cow"
the use of iambic pentameter in "The Purple Cow"
the use of free verse in "Mending Wall"
the use of rhyming in "Mending Wall"
answer
A.
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Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down."
Now read "The Pasture," also by Robert Frost.
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long.—You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long.—You come too.
Which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems?
Frost's opinions changed through time.
The poems have different speakers.
Frost's speakers represent his own views.
The poems were written at different locations.
answer
B.
question
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
This excerpt is an example of
heroic couplet.
free verse.
blank verse.
common meter.
answer
C.
question
Which lines from "Mending Wall" indicate that the neighbor is willing to participate in mending the wall?
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
answer
C.
question
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is the main difference between Sandburg's "Fog" and Frost's "Mending Wall"?
"Fog" uses everyday language, while "Mending Wall" does not.
"Fog" uses metaphor, while "Mending Wall" does not.
"Mending Wall" is in a modern format, while "Fog" is not.
"Mending Wall" is in free verse, while "Fog" is not.
answer
B.
question
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
What does the phrase "one on a side" mean?
The neighbor repairs his side of the wall while the speaker watches.
The speaker and the neighbor repair the wall from the same side.
The speaker repairs his side of the wall while the neighbor watches.
The speaker and the neighbor repair the wall from opposite sides.
answer
D.
question
Women of Adamant, fair neophytes—
Who thirst for such instruction as we give,
Attend, while I unfold a parable.
The elephant is mightier than Man,
Yet Man subdues him. Why? The elephant
Is elephantine everywhere but here (tapping her forehead)
And Man, whose brain is to the elephant's
As Woman's brain to Man's—(that's rule of three),—
Conquers the foolish giant of the woods,t Man subdues him. Why? The elephant
Is elephantine everywhere but here (tapping her forehead)
And Man, whose brain is to the elephant's
As Wo
As Woman, in her turn, shall conquer Man.
This excerpt is an example of
heroic couplet.
free verse.
common meter.
blank verse.
answer
D..
question
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
Whom does the speaker blame for the gaps in the wall?
himself
his neighbor
nature and hunters
rabbits and dogs
answer
C.
question
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is the main similarity between "Fog" and Frost's poem "Mending Wall"?
Both use everyday language.
Both use iambic pentameter.
Both use strict meter.
Both use blank verse.
answer
A.
question
Which practice was common among modernist poets?
writing in formal language
following strict meter
employing traditional forms
using experimental techniques
answer
D.
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