Okay, I no everyone is gonna bash me, but I have the worst time understanding poetry...if anyone could help me with these questions, I really need a passing grade for this assignment. Yes I have read all of the poems, I just cant seem to understand any of them.

“When I Have Fears” ends with an expression of the speaker’s…

A. devotion to his beloved.

B. tremendous anger and rage.

C. fear of death

D. attempt to detach himself from desire.

Each of the five sections of the “Ode to the West Wind”…

A. is presented by a different speaker.

B. shows a different effect of the wind.

C. deals with the wind at a different season.

D. has the form of a fourteen-line sonnet.

In “Ode to a Nighingale,” the nightingale’s song makes the speaker wish to…

A. fly or fade away with the bird.

B. dwell alone in the country.

C. live on with renewed vigor.

D. study the natural world.

In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley expresses such extreme empathy with his subject that he…

A. wants to become the wind and wants the wind to become him.

B. imagines the world entirely surrendering to the wind.

C. wants to resist the wind as if it were a great temptation.

D. refuses to grant the wind an identity of its own.

In “Ozymandias,” what makes line 11, “‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’” ironic?

A. The words were carved in a language that no one can read today.

B. It was meant as a boast, but now it appears to be an admission of futility.

C. There is no such thing as the “Mighty” to worship him anymore.

D. Ozymandias had no idea his words would be quoted thousands of years later.

In a simile meant to express his awe of Homer’s poetry, the speaker of “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” compares himself to…

A. the wide-open ocean.

B. the king of a vast realm.

C. the Greek god Zeus.

D. a Spanish explorer.

In the first stanza of “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” the speaker wants to know…

A. what legend and characters are shown on the urn.

B. when and how the urn was made and painted.

C. Where and by whom the urn was unearthed by.

D. what civilization and artist created the urn.

Which of the following excerpts from Keats’s poems uses inverted syntax?

A. “Much have I traveled in the realms of gold…”

B. “. . . I may never live to trace / Their shadows . . .”

C. “. . . I have fears that I may cease to be”

D. “Then I shall never look upon thee more”

Which of the following lines of poetry is an example of iambic pentameter?

A. “If such there were—with you, the moral of his strain.”

B. “So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,”

C. “I love not man the less, but Nature more,”

D. “Meet in her aspect and her eyes:”

According to the speaker in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” people have no control over…

A. the land.

B. the sea.

C. Themselves.

D. one another.

Suppose a poet were describing a flower and wanted to use synesthesia in the image. Which of the following phrases might he or she use?

A. Soft-petaled flower

B. Clove-scented flower

C. Sweet-voiced flower

D. Star-white flower

What does the speaker find so beautiful about the woman in “She Walks in Beauty”?

A. Her jewelry

B. Her laugh

C. Her dark hair

D. Her voice

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” and “When I Have Fears” are examples of different types of sonnets because they have different and very specific rhyme schemes.

A. True

B. False