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“Because, ________,” said his sister, after silently watching the sparks awhile, “as I get older, and nearer growing up, I often sit wondering here, and think how unfortunate it is for me that I can’t reconcile you to home better than I am able to do. I don’t know what other girls know. I can’t play to you or sing to you. I can’t talk to you so as to lighten your mind, for I never see any amusing sights or read any amusing books that it would be a pleasure or a relief to you to talk about, when you are tired.”

Identify: Farce

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells; Crying What I do is me: for that I came . I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

What poem is this passage from? Who wrote it and what is it about? Who speaks these lines, when, and why? What do they show about the poem? “Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with _________________.” 

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

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Give at least three characteristics of a Sonnet and briefly explain its significance to the British Romantic period. You might name Romantic period writers of sonnets.  

Identify the poet, poem, and speaker. What statement is the speaker making about living beings, human and non-human? How does the speaker partially retract this later in the poem?Beware, lest in the worm you crush A brother’s soul you find;And tremble lest thy luckless hand Dislodge a kindred mind.  

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.