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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. To whom is the poem "Conscript" dedicated?
2. What question does the narrator ask in "This Was Your Place of Birth"?
3. In the poem "The Bottle Is Drunk," what is the narrator sick from?
4. In the poem "Wedding-Wind," what animal is restless?
5. To whom is "All Catches Alight" dedicated?
Short Essay Questions
1. What line is repeated in the poem "All Catches Alight"? What purpose does the repeated line serve?
2. In "Femmes Damnes," what is the photograph of? What is the only sound heard?
3. In the poem "The Large Cool Store," what does the store sell? What is the end of the poem about?
4. What is the narrator looking at in the poem "Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album"? What does the narrator say about the nature of photography?
5. In "The Card-Players," what elements does the poem celebrate in the last line? What comparison is being made with the characters in the poem?
6. What is the poem "Water" about? What does he say about water?
7. What is the subject of the poem "This Is the First Thing"? To what does the narrator compare it?
8. In the poem "Toads," what does the toad represent? What does the narrator say about himself in regards to this subject?
9. In the poem "Talking in Bed," how does the narrator feel about talking in bed? What does he say is hard to do?
10. In "This Be the Verse," what does the narrator say "man hands on to man"? What does the narrator say in the last line?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ships are a common element that Larkin uses in his poetry. Write an essay on the symbolism of the ship in Larkin's collection "The Less Deceived."
Essay Topic 2
In the collection "The Whitsun Weddings," death is a popular theme. Write an essay on the theme of death in the collection. Make sure you use at least four examples in your argument.
Essay Topic 3
In the collection "The North Ship," winter and snow are common elements. Using at least three poems, write an essay detailing Larkin's use of these elements in the collection.
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