Read the excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; This excerpt is an example of
  • Both use humorous language.
  • blank verse
  • blank verse.
  • The poems have different speakers.
Which lines from "Mending Wall" best indicate that the speaker is amused while repairing the wall?
  • writing in everyday language
  • We have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
  • using traditional forms
  • using experimental techniques
Read the poem "Fog," by Carl Sandburg.The fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.What is the main difference between Sandburg's "Fog" and Frost's "Mending Wall"?
  • The poems have different speakers.
  • Both use humorous language.
  • blank verse
  • "Fog" uses metaphor, while "Mending Wall" does not.
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down."Now read "The Pasture," also by Robert Frost. I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;I'll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):I shan't be gone long.—You come too.I'm going out to fetch the little calfThat's standing by the mother. It's so young,It totters when she licks it with her tongue.I shan't be gone long.—You come too.Which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems?
  • The poems have different speakers.
  • Both use humorous language.
  • blank verse
  • blank verse.
Which practice was common among modernist poets?
  • using traditional forms
  • using experimental techniques
  • The poems have different speakers.
  • writing in everyday language
Why does the neighbor say that "good fences make good neighbours" in "Mending Wall"?
  • using experimental techniques
  • writing in everyday language
  • He is repeating what his father used to say.
  • "Fog" uses metaphor, while "Mending Wall" does not.
Which practice was typical of Robert Frost?
  • writing in everyday language
  • Both use humorous language.
  • using experimental techniques
  • using traditional forms
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