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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 does the person in Song want their lover to stop doing?

2. To what does the person in Song compare love?

3. What kind of love does Wendy Cope describe?

4. What is the awkward encounter described by Gregory Corso in Marriage?

5. How does the woman in The Philosopher think she should love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Proverbs 31:10-31 say?

2. What is To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos about?

3. What is The End about?

4. What is Having a Coke With You about?

5. What is Symptom Recital about?

6. What is Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour about?

7. What is When We Two Parted about?

8. What is When You Have Forgotten Sunday: the Love Story about?

9. What is Youth about?

10. What is After Making Love We Hear Footstep about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Kennedy have such a strong connection to poetry, and how does this change the selection her poems in this collection?

Essay Topic 2

Laughter and happiness are common themes found in this book. Where do these come into play, and how are the poems with those themes different from the others in this book?

Essay Topic 3

Nature and its power is a huge theme in this book. What are some of the main examples of this theme and how does this affect the tone of the poems?

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