El Amor

Literature Final Exam - Part 1: Poetry – INDIVIDUALLY.

Re-read the poems “Alone,” “Autobiographia Literaria,” “You Smiled,” “Heart! We will forget him!” and answer the following questions:

1)What is the theme of each poem?

”Alone”
2) Explain these lines “Lying, thinking last night...not stone...” What kind of place is the poet looking for?
3) How does the poet express that lots ofproblems are about to come?
4) Analize the structure of the poem, Why is the second stanza repeated over and over again?
5) What do you think of that stanza? How can you apply its message to yourworld/life?

”Autobiographia Literaria”:
6) Why is the poem called like this?
7) Paraphrase each stanza explaining what its meaning.
8) What do the two poems (Alone and Autobiographia Literaria)have in common?

“You Smiled,” “Heart We Will Forget Him!”:
9) Name two things these poems have in common.
10) How does the speaker feel about the relationship in each poem?

Answers:
1)-lonelyness and friendship
-lonelyness and friendship
-love and diceive
-love and diceive
2) It means that their relation was based in thoughts and lyes but love didn´t appears.The poem is trying to look for a lonely and sad place, where there isn´t any kind of love.
3) By discribing the actual situation of the character and by comparing his situation to a most rich peopleone.
4) Because is trying to send a messaje to the reader.
5) I think this stanza carries the most important information by sending a messaje. Because some people didn´t have somebody to loveso they are alone and nobody can do several things alone.
6) I think because is a spanish poem translated to english so is called like this.
7) - Since she was a child, she played alone in acorner of the schoolyard,
- She hate playing with toys and animals like birds where not friendly and flew away,
- When nobody looked for him he went behind a tree and cried out that...