
Poems Check for Understanding (Ode & Lyric)
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- Q1The poet's purpose in this poem is to: (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.praise and celebrate lighttell a story of a walk in the woodsmourn the passage of timeexpress a personal emotion60s
- Q2In "Ode to Enchanted Light", an example of metaphor is:shining on every leafThe world is a glass overflowing with waterlight like a green latticework of branchesUnder the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky45s
- Q3What image does Pablo Neruda create with the simile in lines 8-9 "drifting down like clean/ white sand"? (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.the play of light and shadow in the branchesthe way light falls down from the skythe reflection created by light on the leavesthe brightness of the white light45s
- Q4The image in lines 10-11 of "Ode to Enchanted Light" (A cicada sends/ its sawing song") appeals to the sense of (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.smellhearingtastesight45s
- Q5What does Pablo Neruda mean by saying "The world is/ a glass overflowing/with water." (lines 13-15) (Here is the poem if you need it) Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches, shining on every leaf, drifting down like clean white sand. A cicada sends its sawing song high into the empty air. The world is a glass overflowing with water.People should appreciate and protect the world's resources.The wonder and beauty of nature are endlessFew people can understand what the world is made of.The world is made of more water than land.45s
- Q6What image does Mary Oliver create with the example of personification in lines 1-5 of "Sleeping in the Forest"? (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.the nearness of the starsthe sound of the river washing over stonesfeeling part f the kingdom of the insectssleeping in the lap of the earth45s
- Q7In "Sleeping in the Forest", an example of simile appears in (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging (Line 1-2)on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars (line 6-7)around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night (line 12-13)light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night (line 9-10)45s
- Q8The imagery in lines 5-11 of "Sleeping in the Forest" suggests a feeling of (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.restlessnessexcitementcontentmentconfusion60s
- Q9From evidence in "Sleeping in the Forest", you can infer that (Here is the poem if you need it) Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.stars frighten the speakerthe speaker is lonelythe speaker is homesicknature soothes the speaker45s
- Q10"Ode to Enchanted Light" and "Sleeping in the Forest" are alike in that they bothshow unusual events in naturerecount a personal experiencehave a distinct rhyme schemepresent positive views of nature45s