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For William Blake, true religion does offer hope, peace, and the promise of heaven, but it’s obvious from “The Chimney Sweeper” that he has an issue with the use of religion. Explain the issue Blake has with English religion and how it’s being used as a means of oppression. 

E.A. Robinson, who desired only to be a poet, did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. What was E.A. Robinson’s father’s profession?

The narrator in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is faced with the decision to “stop” or “keep going”.

A(n) _______ is a lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. It could also be thought of as a “song without music”.

The repetition of consonant sounds within a group of words is known as:

The conflict between ___________ and ___________ is a central theme in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

The five stanzas of “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” progress according to the order of the typical _______. 

The doily, tabaret, and begonia mentioned in “Filling Station” by Elizabeth Bishop, as well as the well-organized oil cans, point to the fact that _______. 

“After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost begins with the following lines:   “My long-two pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still,”   These lines contain an allusion. First, identify the allusion, what it references, and what it means. Secondly, which story from the Short Fiction module contains a similar allusion?

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is structured according to a Persian rhyme scheme known as _____________.