View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caroline say becomes extraordinary in love?

2. Who wrote I Do Not Love Thee?

3. What is the deepest secret shared in I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)?

4. What advice does Nash give in A Word to Husbands?

5. What does Christina Rossetti compare her heart to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Youth about?

2. What is Well I Have Lost You about?

3. What is Variation on the Word Sleep about?

4. What is Worked Late on a Tuesday Night about?

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

6. What is Love's Philosophy about?

7. What is the theme in How Do I Love Thee?

8. What does "You must know that I do not love and that I love you" relate?

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

10. What is When We Two Parted about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How does Kennedy deal with the grief in her life, and how has this changed her taste in literature?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the analogies shared in these poems, and what are their deeper meanings?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 660 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample