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Storgy

Quiz — Storgy

WHY HAVE YOU SOUGHT.

by H. D..

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

The poem is structured as an address to which figure?

Q02of 10

The phrase 'bright ivory / take colour where she bent' most likely refers to which image?

Q03of 10

Which formal characteristic best describes the poem's overall structure?

Q04of 10

In the second stanza, Greek women are depicted as doing what activity that contrasts with the unnamed woman?

Q05of 10

The repeated phrase 'wastes not' in the second stanza is an example of which rhetorical technique?

Q06of 10

What is the dominant tone of the speaker's questions to Eros throughout the poem?

Q07of 10

The allusion to 'the tent / Achilles pitched beside the river-ford' invokes which broader literary context?

Q08of 10

The imagery of 'fair gold shed gold / on radiant surface of porch and pillar' most directly evokes which setting?

Q09of 10

The unnamed woman described in the poem is characterized chiefly as someone who is

Q10of 10

What is the central thematic argument the speaker makes to Eros in the poem?

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