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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. Rilke's letters are examples of what?
2. In "Rilke's Poems on Other Difficulties," Rilke writes in one poem from 1924, "We are not to know why / this and that _____ us."
3. What does Rilke suggest that the young are apt to do in love?
4. In the second of "The Seven Phallic Poems," who does the poet claim is "drawing my seed up into an abrupt tree"?
5. Of what fruit does Rilke write of in "The Poet Praises"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the commentator say regarding the transition to the 1960s' promiscuity and what this transition lacked?
2. How does Rilke suggest sexuality should be regarded in terms of innocence? What does he say of children?
3. What are the subjects discussed in the "Woman's Lament" poems?
4. What is Rilke's discussion regarding religion and the Christian church specifically in his letters?
5. What does Rilke write of "silence" in his untitled poems?
6. What does Rilke write of in his first poem of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?
7. In the untitled poems of "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," how does Rilke write of the gods?
8. Discuss the subjects and imagery of "The Poems Praise."
9. What reference does Rilke use to the god Hermes in The Seven Phallic Poems?
10. Discuss the subjects of "Greek Love Talk" and "The Lovers." What imagery is used?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In a poem such as the following, discuss the relevance and significance of its short length. What is the subject of the poem? What is its theme? What is your analysis of its structure?
"Also to affirm even rapture / like a thing"
Essay Topic 2
Discuss "The Seven Phallic Poems" in terms of subject, theme, symbolism, imagery, and structure.
Essay Topic 3
In Rilke's letters, what does he say regarding the institution of marriage? What mistakes do people make in marrying? How does he suggest one avoid these pitfalls?
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