超星 - Test 8 Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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"I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."The excerpt comes from _______

A. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
B. Walt Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out"
C. Emily Dickinson's "I Taste a Liquor that never brewed"
D. Emily Dickinson's "A Bird Came down the Walk"

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Accoring to Henry James, Dickinson's poems portrays the "landscape of the _______."

A. nature
B. religion
C. soul
D. death

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Emily Dickinson is considered as "_______"

A. Poetess of Boston
B. inventor of free verse
C. Nun of Amherst
D. Tenth Muse

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Walt Whitman is considered as "Bard of American _______."

A. independence
B. democracy
C. transcendentalism
D. freedom

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_______ is considered as "Father of free verse"?

A. Walt Whitman
B. Philip Freneau
C. Washington Irving
D. Edgar Allan Poe

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The line “Theshipisanchor'dsafeandsound,itsvoyageclosedanddone” istakenfrom.

A. “SongofMyself”
B. “OCaptain!MyCaptain”
C. “IHearAmericaSinging”
D. “ISitandLookOut”

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said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?”

A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Since then--'tis centuries-and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses HeadsWere toward Eternity"The present tense of the word "feel" in line 2 shows ______.

A. The narrator "I" seem to have entered an eteral world
B. In this eternal world, the narrator "I" almost cannot feel time passing by
C. The narrator "I" still lives in her mortal world
D. The narrator "I" fails to enter an eternal world

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About Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out", which of the following statements are correct?

A. The poem used anaphora
B. The poem shows a dark, sad, corrupted and sorrowful world
C. The narrator "I" remains a silent onlooker in the poem
D. The narrator "I" actively calls for people to rise up and change the reality in the poem

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What images of the ordinary Amerian people did Whitman depict in stanza 10 of "Song of Myself"?

A. happy and relaxed
B. self-reliant
C. self-sufficient
D. bitter and tragic

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