Q01of 10
Which structural form does Lowell use to organize 'February, 1848'?
Q02of 10
The extended simile that opens the poem compares the people's uprising to which natural phenomenon?
Q03of 10
What does the phrase 'horny, callous hands' primarily convey about the revolutionaries?
Q04of 10
The word 'mænad' in line 14 is an allusion drawn from which tradition?
Q05of 10
What is the speaker's primary tone throughout the poem?
Q06of 10
In Section II, what is the 'symbol' the people 'reared' to Freedom?
Q07of 10
Which thematic argument does Lowell advance most centrally in the poem?
Q08of 10
What is the effect of Lowell's rhetorical question 'What wonder if those palms / were all too hard'?
Q09of 10
According to the poem, what role did poets ('bards') play in the lives of the oppressed workers?
Q10of 10
In lines 17–19, 'chronicles were writ with iron pen / In the crooked shoulder and the forehead low' most directly means that the workers' history was:
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