Directions: Click on links as necessary to answer the following questions.  Use loose-leaf paper to record your answers.  List each member of your group, and include your unique numbers.  You may print one copy of this page for reference.  If applicable, you may listen to audio recordings of the poems; however, it may take them a short while to load.
 

Read  "The Road Not Taken" .  Then answer the following questions.  Click  here  to help you find the answers to question 1-3.

1. According to Miss Gates, what word in the poem makes the speaker seem to be regretful of the path he chose?

2. Was Frost in reality a regretful person, as the speaker in the poem seems to be?

3. About whom was Frost thinking, when he wrote this poem? (Give the person's name and his circumstances.)
 

1. In  "Mid-Day" , to what does the speaker compare herself? (i.e., who is "you" in the poem?)

2. What might this object represent in her life?

3. Give an example of a  simile in the poem.

4. Give an example of  alliteration in the poem.
 

Jane Kenyon died of leukemia at the relatively young age of forty-eight.

1. What is the tone (attitude or approach to her subject) of the speaker in "Otherwise" ?

2. Give an example of a simile in  "Biscuit" .

3. In "Biscuit," what could the dog and its owner symbolize (knowing as you do that the poet was stricken with a disease fairly early in life)?
 

1. In  "Trees" , what is the main literary device the poet employs (uses)? (By the way, Joyce Kilmer was a man.)
 
 

A really neat website with beautiful poetry and music is  The Poetry of Robert E. Kogan ; check it out!
 

You may play  Quia! Flashcards  or other Quia! poetry terms games, if you finish early.
 

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