In Robert Frost’s “Mending Walls”, wall is very symbolic. What are the connotative meanings of it?
A. Wall means the distances and tensions between people.
B. Wall illustrates the nature of human relationships.
C. Wall represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside your innermost heart.
D. The wall functions as a symbol, indicating the need for friendship and separation between human beings.
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“The Road Not Taken” is a meditative poem symbolically written. What are its thematic concerns?
A. The road symbolizes life’s journey, and we must make decisions in life that will greatly impact our destination.
B. The poet tries to tell the reader, “Follow your own course, and let people talk”.
C. In face of predicament, decisions do at least impose an idea of order amidst the sprawling reality.
D. The poem presents an archetypal human situation where man is faced with the difficulty of making choices.
In “Nothing gold can stay”, what are the symbolic meanings of “gold”?
A. Gold represents something priceless
B. Gold represents something beautiful.
C. Gold represents beauty that implicates the state of excitement deep inside your innermost heart.
Why do some poets frequently change syntax?
A. To achieve their unique poetic or rhetorical effects.
B. To reflect the speaker or the poet’s mental feelings.
C. To place certain emphasis on particular words or phrases.
D. To create an effect of euphony and reach rhythmic harmony.
In the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, why does E. E. Cummings change the order of some words and some sentence structure?
A. By changing the order of words, the poem reaches symmetrical and very well-balanced sentence structure.
By changing the order of seasons, he shows the elapse of time.
C. By changing the order of words, he criticizes the conformist life of residents in a pretty town.
D. With the playful and skillful use of word order, he criticizes the town which is too conventional without any originality, creativity, and freshness.