Question

Tell me if my answers are correct? I'll post story if need be.

Answer 1

A void and silent space between two worlds,
When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps

What do these lines suggest about the benefit the speaker receives from nature?

A place to feel numb and forget

A place to take a nap and recover

A relief from the pressures of living

A suggestion of how things could have been

I picked C



Which line from "Summer" would best describe the speaker in "The Sun Has Long Been Set"?

Some men there are who find in nature all

Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man

I love the very human heart of man

To me alone it is a time of pause

I picked B



Which of the following describes the key difference between how these two poems end?

"Summer" ends with exuberant joy, while "The Sun Has Long Been Set" focuses on renewal.

"Summer" ends with despair for humanity, while "The Sun Has Long Been Set" celebrates life.

"Summer" ends by suggesting decay and death, while "The Sun Has Long Been Set" hints at rebirth.

"Summer" ends by celebrating innocence, while "The Sun Has Long Been Set" focuses on a need for rest.

I picked D



The very crown of nature's changing year / When all her surging life is at its full.

Which assertion does this text support?

The speaker of "Summer" feels summer is a very powerful time.

The speaker of "Summer" is weary of change and upheaval.

The speaker of "Summer" does not appreciate summer like others do.

The speaker of "Summer" has little control of her feelings during summer.

I picked A



To them a city is a prison house/Where pent up human forces labour and strive/Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man;

Which assertion does this text support?

The "some men" of the poem do not see beauty in human efforts.

The "some men" of the poem have been prisoners at some time in their past.

The speaker does not agree with the "some men" who despise the cities.

The speaker does not agree that with "some men" that beauty can be found only in nature


I picked B



On such a night of June
With that beautiful soft half-moon,
And all these innocent blisses?

To what does "innocent" most likely refer?

The cleanliness of nature

The many beauties in nature

The purity of nature

The moonlight in nature

I picked B


Which of the following best describes the speaker in "Summer"?

Appreciative of both humans and nature

In love with everything and everyone

Proud of human accomplishments but disrespectful of nature

Reconciled to the importance of nature but attached to cities

I picked A




The speaker in "Summer" sets herself apart from "Some men" when she states "To me it is not so." What does it mean that the speaker then returns to describing nature?

Much in nature is contradictory, like the speaker's views.

Nature is more important to the speaker than humans.

Nature may be more important than the speaker claims.

The natural world intrudes on many human endeavors.


C



Which line from "Summer" describes how most people feel about the season of summer?

To them a city is a prison house

To me it is not so. I love the earth

Lazily reflecting back the sun

The very crown of nature's changing year


A




Which line from "The Sun Has Long Been Set" most clearly explains how the speaker feels about this particular night?

The stars are out by twos and threes

And a far-off wind that rushes

On such a night of June

And all these innocent blisses?


D

Answer 2

i'm sorry i don't know the poem 'summer' so i'm kind lost here.
@mikeiordan25 Can you help?

Answer 3

I can post it? Its hard to understand..

Answer 4

i can try...perhaps if i read it thoroughly i may understand and provide some sort of help.

Answer 5

or could you tell me if I got the ones right that doesn't involve that story?

Answer 6

OKay..





Some men there are who find in nature all
Their inspiration, hers the sympathy
Which spurs them on to any great endeavor,
To them the fields and woods are closest friends,
And they hold dear communion with the hills;
The voice of waters soothes them with its fall,
And the great winds bring healing in their sound.
To them a city is a prison house
Where pent up human forces labour and strive,
Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man;
But where in winter they must live until
Summer gives back the spaces of the hills.
To me it is not so. I love the earth
And all the gifts of her so lavish hand:
Sunshine and flowers, rivers and rushing winds,
Thick branches swaying in a winter storm,
And moonlight playing in a boat's wide wake;
But more than these, and much, ah, how much more,
I love the very human heart of man.
Above me spreads the hot, blue mid-day sky,
Far down the hillside lies the sleeping lake
Lazily reflecting back the sun,
And scarcely ruffled by the little breeze
Which wanders idly through the nodding ferns.
The blue crest of the distant mountain, tops
The green crest of the hill on which I sit;
And it is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer,
The very crown of nature's changing year
When all her surging life is at its full.
To me alone it is a time of pause,
A void and silent space between two worlds,
When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps,
Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.

Answer 7

okay so no.1 is correct (C), and the one with the night of june is also correct. But, reading summer is so different from the poems i do (which is by the way VERY easy to understand) Have you tried looking for the analysis of summer online?

Answer 8

yeah it didn't make any sense...

Answer 9

lol sorry you'll find something! keep trying!

Answer 10

thank you.

Answer 11

@mikeiordan25 heeeeeeeeelp

Answer 12

there are close to right

Answer 13

could you tell me which ones are wrong

Answer 14

Which line from "Summer" describes how most people feel about the season of summer?

D

Answer 15

so that one is wrong