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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. The first collection of poems in "Rilke's Poems on Love" is titled what?
2. What does the commentator say was Rilke's mode of exploration during "the long periods between his well-known great creative bursts of energy"?
3. In Rilke's one-line poem of the love poems, he writes, "This is the mute-mouthed mounting of the ______."
4. In "Gravity," Rilke writes, "Yet from the _____ falls, / as from a stored up cloud, / abundant rain of force."
5. In Rilke's first letter he suggests to the reader to "resolve to be always" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the poet writing about in "The Poet Praises"?
2. What does Rilke write of in his first poem of "Poems of Other Difficulties"?
3. What does Rilke say of questions and answers in his first essay?
4. What does the commentator say regarding Rilke's feminism in the Prologue?
5. How does Mood describe Rilke's masculinity and femininity in his poetry? What does he say of Rilke's own life in this regard?
6. What does Rilke write of using the metaphor of water, song, and play in his untitled poems?
7. In the untitled poems of "Rilke's Poems of Other Difficulties," how does Rilke write of the gods?
8. What does Rilke write of "silence" in his untitled poems?
9. Discuss the subjects of "Greek Love Talk" and "The Lovers." What imagery is used?
10. Discuss the subjects and imagery of "The Poems Praise."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss "Magic" and "Force of Gravity" in terms of subject, theme, symbolism, imagery, and structure.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the poems "Woman's Lament I" and "Woman's Lament II." What structural differences are there in these poems? What similarities in regard to subject and theme?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss "The Seven Phallic Poems" in terms of subject, theme, symbolism, imagery, and structure.
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