Read this poem:How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!What old December's bareness every where!And yet this time removed was summer's time;The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:Yet this abundant issue seem'd to meBut hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,And, thou away, the very birds are mute;Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheerThat leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.What type of poem is this?A.OdeB.SestinaC.HaikuD.SonnetSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read this poem:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of MayAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shadeWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest;So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this;—and this gives life to thee.What type of poem is this?A.SestinaB.SonnetC.OdeD.HaikuSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Based on this stanza from a poem by Robert Frost, what is the poem's main idea?           My November Guest    My Sorrow, when she's here with me,    Thinks these dark days of autumn rain    Are beautiful as days can be;    She loves the bare, the withered tree;    She walks the sodden pasture lane.The poet sometimes becomes depressed in the fall.The poet is happy in November.The poet has a friend named Sorrow who likes autumn.The poet loves the fall season.

The following text is from Robert Burns’ 1781 poem, “Winter: A Dirge.”The sweeping blast, the sky o'ercast,The joyless winter dayLet others fear, to me more dearThan all the pride of May:The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul,My griefs it seems to join;The leafless trees my fancy please,Their fate resembles mine!6Mark for ReviewCross out answer choices you think are wrong.ABCWhich choice best states the main purpose of the text?ATo express the speaker's preference for winter over spring and stormsBTo describe the soothing effect of the tempest's howl on the speaker's soulCTo draw a parallel between the leafless trees and the speaker's own state of beingDTo convey the speaker's sense of joy and connection with nature during winter

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a dateLooking at its structure, which of the following reasons DOES NOT  support why this poem is classified as a sonnet?Group of answer choicesThe poem revolves around the theme of love.The poem follows a strict rhyme scheme.The poem is written in iambic pentameter.The poem consists of 14 lines.

Read "Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare:That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west;Which by and by black night doth take away,Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.In me thou see'st the glowing of such fireThat on the ashes of his youth doth lie,As the deathbed whereon it must expireConsumed with that which it was nourished by.    This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more          strong,    To love that well which thou must leave ere long.Which excerpt best develops the theme that it is important to be surrounded by people you love when you get older?A.Which by and by black night doth take away, / Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.B.Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.C.To love that well which thou must leave ere long.D.In me thou see'st the glowing of such fireSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS