Meta Poetry: Poetry About Poetry

30 August 2022
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Read the excerpt from "Autumn" by Jean Starr Untermeyer. Autumn and dead leaves burning in the sharp air. And winter comforts coming in like a pageant. I shall not forget them:— Great jars laden with the raw green of pickles,Standing in a solemn row across the back of the porch What is the meaning of the word "pageant" in this context?
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parade
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Read "Grass" by Carl Sandburg. Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work. Which statement best describes the speaker of the poem?
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The speaker is the grass that is determined to grow over the earth.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. Based on context, what is the most likely definition for "triviality"?
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Insignificance
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand Based on context, what is the most likely definition for "derivative"?
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Unoriginal
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." nor is it valid to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. What theme does this excerpt express?
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Poetry is genuine when it reflects truth and reality.
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Which statement best describes the effect of the free-verse form in "Poetry"?
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It helps the reader experience the poet's thought process.
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Read the excerpt from "A Day for Wandering" by Clinton Scollard. Where interwoven branches spread a shade Of soft cool beryl like the evening seas Unruffled by the breeze. Which is the best evidence from the poem that "beryl" means "green"?
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like the evening seas
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Which lines from "Poetry" best indicate that the poet believes that poetry should express authentic thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
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nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. What theme does this excerpt best express?
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Poetry is interesting when it is authentic.
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Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?
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The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry. What is the theme of this excerpt?
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Poetry should convey truthful content and emotion.
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Which words from "A Day for Wandering" best indicate that the speaker is happy to be outside?
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harmonic, confidant, and content
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Read the excerpt from "Birches" by Robert Frost. When I see birches bend to left and right Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. What is the best description of the theme of this excerpt?
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The sun has a wondrous effect on icy birch branches.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry." When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand: the bat holding on upside down or in quest of something to eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf under a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that feels a flea, the base- ball fan, the statistician— What theme does this excerpt express?
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People do not like what they cannot understand.