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A quiz on the poem, 'The Darkling Thrush' from the WJEC Poetry Anthology.
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1
Which poet wrote
The Darkling Thrush
?
Jonathan Swift
Thomas Andrews
John Keats
Thomas Hardy
2
Which point would be plausible to include in an analysis of the Keatsian term
'darkling'
?
The '-ling' suffix suggests the image of a small Thrush.
The archaic term, 'darkling,' suggests a dark bird.
The suffix, '-ling,' sounds funny.
It means, "in the dark."
3
The longer lines of the poem are________ ?
Iambic Heptameter
Iambic Tetrameter
Iambic Trimeter
Iambic Pentameter
4
What is the narrative perspective of the poem?
Third person.
First person.
From the perspective of the audience.
Second person.
5
What was the poem originally called when first published?
The Century's End,1900.
Bye Bye Birdie
The World's End,1900.
The Collar
6
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
ABCD ABCD
ABAB CDCD
ACDC
CDAB CDAB
7
What else in our poetry anthology did Hardy write?
To Autumn.
There is a Garden in Her Face.
Nothing.
Tess of the D'Ubervilles.
8
What type of poem is the Darkling Thrush?
Sonnet
Elegy
Lyric Poem
Ode
9
What would be the primary purposes of the poem? Psst...there are TWO answers.
To show the bleakness of the Victorian countryside.
To impress the love of his life who the Thrush symbolises.
To show the beauty of nature.
To mark the symbolic end of the 19th Century.
10
How many stanzas are there in
The Darkling Thrush
?
2
6
8
4
11
THEMES- Out of the following themes, select the odd one out.
Death
Memories
Winter
Time
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Out of these lexis (taken from the poem) which doesn't fit into the apparent lexical field?
Corpse
Gloom
Ancient
Crypt
