Problem
Poetry Reading Questions
i. Identify the tone found in Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and explain by offering examples where you found this tone illustrated in the poem.
ii. Identify the theme in Crane's "The Wayfarer" and explain your answer.
iii. Compare Walt Whitman's poem on locomotives with Emily Dickinson's poem on locomotives. "I Like to See it Lap the Miles" with Whitman's "To a Locomotive in Winter." What literary element do both poems exhibit? Also, what do both poems represent about locomotives, in general?
iv. Identify and explain the theme in William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper."
v. Identify and explain the tone of "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.