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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Death Alone | Barcarole | Oceanic South | Walking Around.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "black days" in "Bleak System"?
(a) When the poet was ill.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Death.
(d) A time of war.

2. What does the poet relate the woman's body to in "Body of a Woman"?
(a) Literature.
(b) Scientific discovery.
(c) The earth.
(d) The heavens.

3. In "Absence of Joaquin," what defines the friend?
(a) His money.
(b) His death.
(c) His education.
(d) His wife.

4. What does the poet compare dreaming to in "Nocturnal Collection"?
(a) Love.
(b) Birth.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Death.

5. In "Leaning into the Afternoons," what does the poet say he resembles when he loves?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Stars.
(c) A moon.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poet immortalize himself in "Signifying Shadows"?

2. How are riders described in "Dream Horses"?

3. What does the poet see in the ocean in "Oceanic South"?

4. In lines 4-8 of "Tang," who does the poet describe?

5. In "Lone Gentleman," what does the poet call the people around him?

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