Quiz 3 Metaphysical Poetry on Love and Death

Quiz 3 Metaphysical Poetry on Love –and Death

1. Metaphysical Conceit is/has … Choose the wrong one 1. A striking comparison 2. A group of metaphors 3. An extended metaphor with a complex logic 4. Scientific terms previously not used in poetry

2. Which of the following is NOT a metaphysical conceit in “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”? Parting compared to the death of virtuous men 2. Parting compared the movement of heavenly spheres 3. Parting compared to the beating of tin foil 4. Parting compared to the two feet of a compass 1.

3. ”Though use make you apt to kill me, Choose the wrong one Let not to that self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. ” 1. The speaker tries to persuade the lady to have sex with him, which is just mingling of their blood as a flea bite involves. 2. Though you tend to kill me by habit, do not kill yourself by killing the flea. 3. “Killing three lives” means killing the flea, yourself and our baby. 4. “Three sins means self-murder, killing “me” and a sacrilege to the marriage temple.

4. “To his Coy Mistress” Choose the wrong one 1. “while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew” refers to the lover’s transient youth. 2. “Now let us sport us while we may” spells out the “carpe diem” theme 3. “like amorous birds of prey Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power” Let’s eat each other up in sex. 4. “Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ” Let’s enjoy life to the fullest. Let’s make our son run for life.

5. Which of the following is NOT true of “Death, Be Not Proud” 1. Death is not capable of killing everyone 2. Death is not as powerful as it seems because fate, chance, and worldly power can use and abuse it. 3. Soul lives on; only death dies. 4. Sleep and rest are experiences better than death, so death should not be proud.