Q01of 10
What specific action first draws the rough men in the railroad car to gather around?
Q02of 10
The simile 'brook-like songs' in the second stanza primarily conveys what quality of Burns' poetry?
Q03of 10
The phrase 'tender awe, / Sun-like, o'er faces brown and hard' is an example of which poetic technique?
Q04of 10
What does the speaker suggest will happen to the workingmen after they leave the railroad car?
Q05of 10
In the pyramid image — 'narrowing up to thought, stands glorified, / A moveless pyramid' — what does the base of the pyramid represent?
Q06of 10
Lowell contrasts two kinds of poetic achievement. Which pair best captures that contrast?
Q07of 10
The line 'O'er the weak thrones of wrong' suggests that the poet's thought has the power to do what?
Q08of 10
How does Lowell characterize the relationship between God and the spread of love and poetic inspiration throughout the poem?
Q09of 10
The speaker states that great deeds found among 'the untaught poor' do what to classical learning?
Q10of 10
What is the poem's central theme?
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