Identification Of British Poetry 1660–1925

Glory be to God for dappled things –
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
      And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
 
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                                Praise him.

The form of the poem is that of __________.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden. Each of these men performed certain poetic functions so magnificently well that the magnitude of the effect concealed the absence of others. The language went on and in some respects improved; the best verse of Collins, Gray, Johnson, and even Goldsmith satisfies some of our fastidious demands better than that of Donne or Marvell or King. But while the language became more refined, the feeling became more crude. The feeling, the sensibility, expressed in the "Country Churchyard" (to say nothing of Tennyson and Browning) is cruder than that in the "Coy Mistress."

The title of a work by which of the following poets is specifically referenced in the passage?

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Identify the poet of the following lines based on the content and style of the selection.

Should God create another Eve, and IAnother Rib afford, yet loss of theeWould never from my heart; no no, I feelThe Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh,Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy StateMine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

Which of the following poets wrote the excerpted lines?

If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,Some hidden Spirit shall inquire thy Fate,Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say,"Oft have we seen him at the Peep of DawnBrushing with hasty Steps the Dews awayTo meet the Sun upon the upland Lawn.There at the Foot of yonder nodding BeechThat wreathes its old fantastic Roots so high,His listless Length at Noontide wou"d he stretch,And pore upon the Brook that babbles by."

Who wrote this poem?

If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,Some hidden Spirit shall inquire thy Fate,Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say,"Oft have we seen him at the Peep of DawnBrushing with hasty Steps the Dews awayTo meet the Sun upon the upland Lawn.There at the Foot of yonder nodding BeechThat wreathes its old fantastic Roots so high,His listless Length at Noontide wou"d he stretch,And pore upon the Brook that babbles by."

Which of the following is not a prevalent theme in the poem?

If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,Some hidden Spirit shall inquire thy Fate,Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say,"Oft have we seen him at the Peep of DawnBrushing with hasty Steps the Dews awayTo meet the Sun upon the upland Lawn.There at the Foot of yonder nodding BeechThat wreathes its old fantastic Roots so high,His listless Length at Noontide wou"d he stretch,And pore upon the Brook that babbles by."

Which of the following is a line from the poem that later became the title for an 1874 English novel?

If chance, by lonely Contemplation led,Some hidden Spirit shall inquire thy Fate,Haply some hoary-headed Swain may say,"Oft have we seen him at the Peep of DawnBrushing with hasty Steps the Dews awayTo meet the Sun upon the upland Lawn.There at the Foot of yonder nodding BeechThat wreathes its old fantastic Roots so high,His listless Length at Noontide wou"d he stretch,And pore upon the Brook that babbles by."

The poem from which this passage is excerpted ends with which of the following?

What dire offence from am"rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:This, ev"n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,If She inspire, and He approve my lays.
Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compelA well-bred Lord t" assault a gentle Belle?O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor"d,Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?In tasks so bold, can little men engage,And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty Rage?

Who wrote this poem?

What dire offence from am"rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,I sing — This verse to Caryl, Muse! is due:This, ev"n Belinda may vouchsafe to view:Slight is the subject, but not so the praise,If She inspire, and He approve my lays.
Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compelA well-bred Lord t" assault a gentle Belle?O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor"d,Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?In tasks so bold, can little men engage,And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty Rage?

What is the subject of this poem?