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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the youngest blossoms nourish in Sweet Death?
2. What is the second enemy in The Three Enemies?
3. What does the speaker implore Jesus to do for her in the first stanza of A Better Resurrection?
4. With what must Spring dawn again, in the third stanza of The First Spring Day?
5. What are the names of the two girls the speaker of No Thank You, John says would take pity on John?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many of the poems in the collection, from The Convent Threshold through The World, deal with explicitly religious themes. Analyze the overall portrayal of religion in these poems in a thoughtful and insightful essay. How is religion portrayed in each individual poem? How is religion portrayed overall? With what sort of imagery and beliefs is religious practice associated? What do the poems indicate about religious belief? How do the speakers interact with religion? What does religion provide the speakers? What does faith provide?
Essay Topic 2
Many of the poems in this collection are in the traditional Italian sonnet form. This includes A Triad, Remember, After Death, The One Certainty, and The World. Using either a few, or all, of these sonnets, compose an analytical essay which demonstrates how the Italian sonnet form conveys its significance through exposition in the octave and explication or resolution in the sestet. How do the two parts interact with one another? What does the commentary or resolution in the sestet achieve? What opportunities of conveying significance does the form of the sonnet allow? What is the significance of some of the sonnets in the collection?
Essay Topic 3
Many of Rossetti's poems provide commentary on the uncertainty and the possibilities of life after death. Perusing the collection, compose an analytical essay which looks at the portrayals of life after death in-depth. In what ways is the uncertainty of life after death portrayed? Does it seem certain that there is life after death? What would indicate that there is? What would indicate that there is not? What do the poems indicate about speculating on life-after-death's existence? What do the poems seem to argue should be the disposition of someone towards life after death?
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