Analyzing Ekphrastic Poetry (Quiz)

What does a close observation of the painting reveal about the astronomer?

What idea best states a conclusion about the painting?

What can be observed from this painting? Check all that apply. (A Starry Night)

What conclusion can be drawn from the painting?

Which statement best describes the tone of the poems?

What can be observed from this painting? Check all that apply. (A portrait of Van Gogh)

What is the subject of this poem? ("The Poison Tree" by William Blake.)

Which statement best describes the subjects of the poems?

Which statement best defines ekphrastic poetry?

Read the poem entitled "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. What is the subject of this poem?

In "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Williams mentions "a splash quite unnoticed." Which words from Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" best illustrate this idea of people's distraction and indifference?

Consider the poems. "The Corn Harvest" by William Carlos Williams An excerpt from "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost Summer ! the painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest completely relaxed from his morning labors sprawled in fact sleeping unbuttoned on his back the women have brought him his lunch perhaps a spot of wine they gather gossiping under a tree whose shade carelessly he does not share the resting center of their workaday world. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples; I am drowsing off. I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the water-trough, And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break. But I was well Upon my way to sleep before it fell, And I could tell What form my dreaming was about to take. Magnified apples appear and reappear, Stem end and blossom end, And every fleck of russet showing clear. How is Frost's presentation of the subject different than Williams's?

Read the poem entitled "The Poison Tree" by William Blake. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears, And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, — And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning, glad, I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. Which statement best describes the poem's use of language?