Robert Gray Flames and Dangling Wire

Question 1

Example of negative imagery associated with the underworld:

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'shadowy figures who seem engaged in identifying the dead'

Question 2

'fires in a row like fingers spread and dragged to smudge' is

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a simile giving a grim, human sense to the scene

Question 3

"...fog over the hot sun..." uses

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assonance

Question 4

Stanza 2: "...the city...this swamp...Galapagos" are allusions to

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the origins of man [Darwin] and the rise of civilization

Question 5

This artwork highlights

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disaster and ruin, destruction and cannibalism

Question 6

This poem describes

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an imagined visit to a garbage dump

Question 7

The figures in the underworld exist in half life. This is shown in the lines

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...scraps of appetite...wandering despondently

Question 8

What does Gray associate Chopin's music with?

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thecurtains lifting,one time, to a coast of light.

Question 9

The line "the city driven like stakes into the earth" creates

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a negative image of civilization

Question 10

"I notice an old radio, that spills its dangling wire"

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is another object representing human technological advance.

Question 11

This image is referenced in the line:

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somethingflapslike the rag held up in ‘The Raft of the Medusa’.

Question 12

Why would this man 'have to weep'?

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Thick sour smoke was getting in his eyes., Knowing all that he doesabout us,how can he avoid a hatred of men?

Question 13

This image is referenced in the line:

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... after men have gone.It will be made of things that worked.

Question 14

This image is referenced by the line:

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"for a moment he seems that demon with the long barge pole."

Question 15

"...landscape of tin cans, of cars like skulls..."

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uses consonance and negative imagery to create a harsh effect

Question 16

...the voices it received are still travelling, skidding away, riddled, around the arc of the universe...

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hints that the remnants of human existence endure in some form

Question 17

'horse-laughs' and 'Chopin' juxtapose

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vulgar and banal human activity; elevated, extraordinary human achievement

Question 18

The last two lines of the poem are consistent with the overall mood of the poem.

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False

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