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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 8 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
2. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
3. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?
4. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
2. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
3. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
4. Describe the structure of this poem.
5. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
6. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
7. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
8. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the meaning of lines 19-21. What claim is the speaker making here? How do these lines reflect on the quatrain they follow? What purpose does this claim serve in the poem's overall argument? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about "The Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the tension between merging and individuation in "The Good Morrow." In what sense does the poem portray the lovers as one singular thing? What purpose does it serve to portray them as one united and completely merged entity? In what sense does the poem portray them as still two separate entities? What purpose does it serve to portray them as still two distinct people? How does the poem seem to reconcile these opposite ideas? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
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