Poetry Test

EN1006M

Poetry Test

Recommended Time: 60 minutes

Due: Friday July 8 11:55pm

Submission: Upload your answers with your last name in the file name

Read through the instructions carefully.

Part A: Identification and Analysis (30%)

Find 5 of the following 8 terms in the poem below. Write the answers in your document, quoting specifically what you have found as an example of that term. You need to only provide one example per term. (10%)

ii) Pick 1 of the terms you located in part i) and briefly explain how that device adds to the meaning in the poem. (20%)

Terms: caesura; end-stopped; enjambment; alliteration; trochee; anapest; assonance; volta

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

Who told me time would ease me of my pain!

I miss him in the weeping of the rain;

I want him at the shrinking of the tide;

The old snows melt from every mountain-side,

And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;

But last year’s bitter loving must remain

Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!

There are a hundred places where I fear

To go,–so with his memory they brim!

And entering with relief some quiet place

Where never fell his foot or shone his face

I say, “There is no memory of him here!”

And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

Part B: Lineation (70%)

Using some of the logics of lineation we have studied, lineate one of the following three poems.You may not change the order of words, nor may you add in or take away punctuation. (5%)

Write 2-3 paragraphs explaining and analyzing your lineation choices. (65%)

a) The sterility of having nothing to say. And then a smile. I must first hear myself in that gesture which, beyond my own name, marks me for repetition. Recognition in the act I become when whoever hears me sees me arrive.

b) Little spots of sunshine lie on the surface of the water and dance, dance, and their reflections wobble deliciously over the ceiling; a stir of my finger sets them whirring, reeling.

c) And that’s how it was my sister standing at the top of all those stairs that lead up to the apartment and she pushed down the empty suitcase that banged the banister and wall as it tumbled and I was crying on the other side of the door because I was sure it was my sister who fell