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Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold,  When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang  Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,  Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.  In me thou seest the twilight of such day,  As after sunset fadeth in the west,  Which by and by black night doth take away,  Death’s second self that seals up all in rest.  In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,  That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,  As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,  Consumed with that which it was nourished by.    This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong,    To love that well, which thou must leave ere long. 1. Describe the poem’s essential features as fully as possible. 2.  Explain how TWO of the poetic devices connect to the poem’s meaning. 3.  Explain how the poem reflects its historical period and artistic movement.

The following example illustrates which figure of speech in Keat’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn”: “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness”

In Song of Myself, Whitman appropriates which ancient style of poetry?

Romanticism was a response against this prior social and scientific movement?

This literary terms refers to how the poet turns the line by running over a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation.

The following from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60 is an example of which figure of speech?: “Nativity, once in the main of light,/Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned”

At the time Antigone was written and performed, ancient Athens had this type of government?

This character–a casual wanderer and observer of modern life–was popular in Romantic fiction?

Whitman was part of this American philosophical movement? 

In poetry, a grouping of lines is called what?