Q01of 10
What is the Sower doing as he walks from east to west?
Q02of 10
Which literary allusion does Lowell use to describe the Sower's dim, empty face?
Q03of 10
The image of 'a dragon's tooth' from which 'sprang up an armèd man' alludes to which mythological tradition?
Q04of 10
How does the poem's structure reinforce its central warning?
Q05of 10
What does the Sower believe his scattered seeds will accomplish?
Q06of 10
What is the dominant tone of the speaker as he observes the results of the Sower's work?
Q07of 10
Which of the following best describes the poem's central theme?
Q08of 10
In the line 'his dim face showed no soul beneath,' what technique is Lowell primarily using?
Q09of 10
The word 'dotard' used to describe the Sower most directly reveals the speaker's attitude toward him as
Q10of 10
The repeated final stanza—'I sow again the holy Past, / The happy days when I was young'—functions primarily as
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