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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 die in winter, according to "Winter Song?"

2. Where does the speaker search for a man in "Elegy in April and September?"

3. Who is sleeping in "The Kind Ghosts?"

4. What fairy tale is a reworking of Blunden's favorite of Owen's early works?

5. Who was Owen's primary literary inspiration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the speaker compare people to in "O World of many Worlds?" What does he compare himself to?

2. What are the four gems in "Spells and Incantation?" What does each represent?

3. What is the purpose of "On My Songs?"

4. Why is Heracles unable to defeat Antaeus in "Antaeus: A Fragment?"

5. Why is the woman in "The Imbecile" an imbecile? Who thinks this of her?

6. What is the hole cut in Europe? Why is it called "the Path of Glory?"

7. Who might the man be that the speaker is going to meet in "The Promisers?" What does it mean that the speaker never meets him?

8. What is personification? How does Owen use it in "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole?"

9. What is the tone of "The End" and "The Unreturning?" How do you know?

10. According to the first appendix in Collected Poems, why were many of Owen's poems destroyed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of the weather in Owen's poetry.

Essay Topic 2

Define sonnet. What are the characteristics of a sonnet? Give at least one example of a sonnet from Owen's poetry.

Essay Topic 3

Define metaphor. Explain how Owen's poems use metaphor to discuss death. Use at least one poetic example from Owen's work to support your answer.

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