Poetry 3: Nature and Art

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Poetry 3 Nature and Art

• Quiz

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1. This is all you have owned, the speaker in
Earth says. What does this mean?

1. The beautiful scenery of moon light on our earth
2. The comparison of our veins to rivulets
3. Interacting with nature such as swifts, moon and
   ants
4. owning a black tree.

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2. Which of the following is NOT part of the
descriptions of the snake in A Narrow Fellow in
the Grass

• 1. It is as fast as a shaft
• It is sinister like Satan
• It likes to be in a boggy area
• It sends chills down the speakers spine.

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3. Sound Pattern in"When I Heard the Learn'd
Astronomer" (1865)Choose the WRONG one

• When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
• When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in
  columns before me,
• When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add,
  divide, and measure them,
• When I sitting heard the astronomer where he
  lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
• How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
• Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by
  myself,
• In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to
  time,
• Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
• The poem has a lot of explosive sounds in the
  first four lines.
• Its 2nd four lines produce mellifluous sound
  effects with m and open vowels.
• The poem is rhymed and with regular line length.

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4. Which is the characteristics of "Musée des
Beaux Arts?

1. It describes the painting skills of the three
   paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
2. It does not give any examples from these
   paintings.
3. The "white legs in the 2nd stanza are those of
   the young Jesus.
4. Its language is deliberately unpoetic, its rhymes
   hidden among those unrhymed sounds.

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5. Anecdote of the Jar Choose the correct
interpretation

1. The jar is completely separated from its
   surrounding, over which it dominates.
2. The jar in the poem is a deadly human artifact
   which destroys nature.
3. Nature in the poem is domesticated and
   productive.
4. The poem is a free verse.