Q01of 10
What verse form best describes the structure of this poem?
Q02of 10
In the lines "'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, / Whose golden rounds are our calamities," what literary device is primarily at work?
Q03of 10
When Lowell writes that "all God's angels come to us disguised," which theme does this best illustrate?
Q04of 10
What is the speaker's relationship to the dead child?
Q05of 10
The biblical allusion "When Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay" is used to make which point?
Q06of 10
In lines 36–44, the sounds of bees, hummingbirds, crickets, and roosters serve primarily to convey what effect?
Q07of 10
How does Lowell's tone shift between the poem's opening and its closing lines?
Q08of 10
Which of the following best describes the poem's central image of Death?
Q09of 10
In the final movement of the poem (lines 74–86), what surprising reversal does Lowell imagine concerning the dead child and the grieving parent?
Q10of 10
The phrase "the visionary hand of Might-have-been" (line 72) refers most directly to which idea?
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