Rossetti’s ‘After Death’

Rossetti’s
‘Winter: My Secret’   

Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’

Whitman’s Song of Myself

Dickinson’s ‘Safe in Their Alabaster
Chambers’

Dickinson’s ‘A Bird Came Down the Walk’

Dickinson’s ‘I Like to See
it Lap the Miles’     

Dickinson’s
‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’

Dickinson’s ‘My Life had Stood–A Loaded
Gun’

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QUESTION 1

What happens to Laura after eating the forbidden fruit at the goblin market?

QUESTION 2

What is Leaves of Grass? (Be detailed and specific here–it’s not simple!)

QUESTION 3

Whitman writes that he is an American because he was born here to parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who were all born here; but he also says that his ‘tongue, every atom of my blood formed from this soil’–how is this statement literally true?

QUESTION 4

Being as specific and detailed as possible, examine the first six lines of Section 21 of Song of Myself; what do these lines mean to you?

QUESTION 5

According to the speaker of Dickinson’s poem ‘My Life had Stood–a Loaded Gun–,’ how does the speaker’s life compare to a loaded gun?

QUESTION 6

What do you think Dickinson’s speaker means by ‘Rafter of satin, / And Roof of stone’ in ‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers?’ (Be detailed here–use the poem as needed for evidence.)

QUESTION 7

What is the subject of Dickinson’s “I love to see it Lap the Miles–“? How do you know–in other words, using evidence from the poem, support your claim.

QUESTION 8

Why does the speaker of Rossetti’s ‘Winter: My Secret’ prefer winter over the other seasons?