Q01of 10
What is the speaker waiting for the red-bicycle boy to deliver?
Q02of 10
Which phrase from the poem most directly names the poem's central emotion?
Q03of 10
The poem is divided into three stanzas of four lines each. What is the effect of this tight, uniform stanza form?
Q04of 10
In the opening stanza, the images of crumbling hoar-frost and melting steam chiefly establish which mood?
Q05of 10
The two black birds that 'sweep past the window' function primarily as what kind of device?
Q06of 10
When the bicycle boy passes without stopping, the speaker asks, 'but is it / Relief that starts in my breast?' This rhetorical question mainly conveys that the speaker feels:
Q07of 10
The final image, 'a deeper bruise of knowing that still / She has no rest,' shifts the poem's tone from anxious anticipation to:
Q08of 10
The pronoun 'She' appears only in the poem's final line. What is the chief effect of delaying this identification?
Q09of 10
Lawrence uses 'thaw' in 'a thaw of anxiety' as an unconventional modifier. This metaphor works primarily because:
Q10of 10
Which of the following best describes the poem's overall structural movement?
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