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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of clowns "always making up imaginary scenes with all our masks for faces" does the poet refer to in Poem 16?
2. In Poem 27, what tolled twice, once for the birth of love and once for the death?
3. What kind of two-step does the poet write about in Poem 9?
4. In poem 2, where does the poet say "we" were sailing through the streets?
5. What is the literary allusion in Poem 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the major theme of Poem 29 of Chapter One?
2. Detail the events which take place in Poem 8, in Golden Gate Park.
3. Describe the Christ figure in Poem 5 of Chapter One.
4. What is Poem 4 about in Chapter One? What imagery is used?
5. What is the metaphor for a poet in Poem 15 of Chapter One?
6. What does the poet write about Beauty in Poem 10 of Chapter One?
7. What is the statue described as in Poem 6 of Chapter One?
8. What does Chagall do in Poem 14 of Chapter One?
9. How is life compared to a circus in Poem 17 of Chapter One?
10. What is the juxtaposition of setting in Poem 19 of Chapter One? How is memory involved?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the poems of Chapter 2 in comparison to the poems of the rest of the collection. How are these different in style? What are the common themes?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the structural elements of Poem 24 of the first chapter of the collection. What imagery does the poet use to describe "the beach of love"? How does the poet create the image of waves using line breaks and what is the significance of this?
Essay Topic 3
Poem 2 of "A Coney Island of the Mind" begins, "Sailing thru the straits of Demos / we saw symbolic birds / shrieking over us." Describe the bird and animal imagery in this poem and how they relates to the poem's themes.
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