"Bright Star" is a sonnet by the British Romantic poet John Keats. Written in 1818 or 1819, the poem is a passionate declaration of undying, constant love like the bright star although the poet does not want to be isolated as the star is from human life: ________9Mark for ReviewABCWhich quotation from Bright Star most effectively illustrates the claim?A"Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night / And watching, with eternal lids apart,"B"The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth's human shores"C"Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / And so live ever-or else swoon to death"D"To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,"

Read the first two stanzas of this poem:I saw my soul at rest upon a dayAs a bird sleeping in the nest of night,Among soft leaves that give the starlight wayTo touch its wings but not its eyes with light;So that it knew as one in visions may,And knew not as men waking, of delight.This was the measure of my soul's delight;It had no power of joy to fly by day,Nor part in the large lordship of the light;But in a secret moon-beholden wayHad all its will of dreams and pleasant night,And all the love and life that sleepers may.This excerpt is an example of what type of poem?A.BalladB.HaikuC.SonnetD.Sestina

The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare’s 1609 poem “Sonnet 116.”Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth‘s unknown, although his height be taken.Love‘s not Time‘s fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle‘s compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.What is the main idea of the text?The speaker is reflecting on a failed romance.eliminateThe speaker is explaining how a relationship has evolved over time.eliminateThe speaker is claiming that love will endure despite the passing of time.eliminateThe speaker is describing the way that storms have an impact on love.

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written by John Keats in 1819. It is a thought-provoking poem that explores the nature of art, beauty, and life. The poem utilizes the urn to point out that even though life is fleeting, beauty can be eternal.6Mark for ReviewMCQABCWhich quotation from the poem most effectively illustrates the claim?A“O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede / Of marble men and maidens overwrought,With forest branches and the trodden weed; / Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought“B“When old age shall this generation waste / Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe /Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, / Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all"C“What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape / Of deities or mortals, or of both, / In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?”D“Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed / Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; / And, happy melodist, unwearied, / For ever piping songs for ever new;”

Choose the poem that is free verse.You are less an image in my mindthan a lusterI see you in gleamspale as star-light on a gray wall . . .evanescent as the reflection of a white swanshimmering in broken water.First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!

Choose the poem that uses iambic meter.The twilight hours, like birds, flew by,As lightly and as free,Ten thousand stars were in the sky,Ten thousand on the sea;Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time.