Part A (relates to Unit 1)
Choose any five of the following seven questions and respond in single-paragraph answers of from five to eight sentences. Your responses should be concise but detailed and should employ quoted material to support major points. (10 marks each)
1. The rhyme pattern in T. S. Eliots Preludes (Geddes, 95) is a sophisticated and modern variation on an old form. Identify the rhyme pattern in the first stanza and discuss what Eliot might have been trying to do in using this pattern.
2. After reviewing the entry on rhyme in Abramss Glossary, identify three different types of end-rhyme in Theodore Roethkes Prayer (Geddes, 188). What effects do the rhymes produce?
3. What is the chief symbol in Lorna Croziers poem Forms of Innocence (Geddes, 751)? What does the symbol suggest beyond its literal meaning?
4. In Epithalamium (Geddes, 651) Louise Glck uses alliteration, assonance and consonance. Identify an example of each and comment on the effect of these devices in Glcks poem.
5. How do any three of the plant and vegetation images function, or what do they convey, in Ezra Pounds translation-poem The River Merchants Wife: A Letter (Geddes, 2526)?
6. What is the chief figure of speech in Williamss The Yachts (Geddes, 41), and what does it seem to say about Williamss subject?
7. Identify at least five metaphors in Earle Birneys poem Vancouver Lights (Geddes, 200201). How does each metaphor influence our understanding of the element within the poem to which is applied?
Part B (relates to Unit 2)
Choose one of the following poems from 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics and write an explication of 400 to 500 words. Your explication should be based on the instructions and models presented in Unit 2. (50 marks)
The Landlady by P. K. Page (Geddes, 282283)
Bushed by Earle Birney (Geddes, 209210)
Summer Twilight by Sharon Thesen (Geddes, 829)
For information on handling quoted material, be sure to consult Constance Rookes The Clear Path.