La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Review and Assess
1. Respond: What word or words would you use to describe the knight? Explain your answer.
2. Recall: What is the setting of hte poem? In what way does the season of this setting reinforce the meaning and the mood of the poem?
3. Describe the lady whom the knight meets. What is unusual about her?
4. Describe the knight's dream. Explain hjow the people in the knight's dream relate to his present condition.
5. Where is the lady when the knight awakens form his dream? Why i shte knight "Alone and plaely loitering"?
6. What does this poem suggest about things that seem attractive on the surface?
The Waking
Review and Assess
1. After reading the poem, do you feel optimistic or pessimistic? Explain.
2. Accordint to eh speaker, what dances "from ear to ear"? In what ways is the image contradictory? What is the emotion conveyed by this image?
3. Indentify two lines that address learning or thinking. What attitude toward knowledge do these lines convey? Explain.
4. What do you thingk the speaker means by the line " I wake to sleep, and takie my waking slow"? Why do you think so?
5. What advice aboutliving can you find in this poem? Do you think it is good advice? Why or why not?
Sonnet 18: Review and Assess
1. How might you feel if you were the subject of a sonnet like this one? Explain.
2. To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem? Do teh subject fare better or worse than a summer's day? Explain.
3. Who or waht is "the eye of heaven"? In your own words, restate lines 5 and 6.
4. What does the speker say "shall not fade"?
What makes the beloved immortabl?
5. Do you agree with teh statement made in the last two lines? Wha are some modern expressions of this sentiment?
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