1. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good news.
(b) The good day after.
(c) The good morning.
(d) The good soul.

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(b) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Babies.
(b) Animals.
(c) Inanimate objects.
(d) Farmers.

4. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Appositive.

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Irony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?

2. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

(see the answer key)

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