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ENGL 216 Quiz 4 Liberty University answers complete solutions "Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please – it is not a matter of any importance" is from which work? ... This poem by Yeats contains an image of a gyre, symbolic of paradoxes of time and eternity, change and continuity, spirit and the body, life and art: In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock believes the mermaids will sing to him. In “Church Going,” Larkin seems to suggest that belief in the unbelievable is preferable to no belief at all. “Journey of the Magi” does not embellish the biblical account of the Magi’s journey to find Christ. Hardy’s point in “The Convergence of the Twain” is that it is human arrogance to think humans can subdue nature. This poem is a reactionary poem in which the speaker reacts to a horrible war and the lie being told about it: The links "In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that panned her, stilly couches she" are from what work? "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, ' Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time" are lines from which poem? A Room of One’s Own suggests that women writers need forerunners, for masterpieces are not solitary in nature. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock is confident and self-assured. This poem is full of stumbling, fumbling, tired, hopeless, dying men depicting a ghastly scene of war and of a man drowning in poisonous gas. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock believes himself to be like Hamlet. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” could be interpreted as a poem celebrating carpe diem. This work suggests that to be effective, female writers must curb emotions and embrace a new (feminine) language: In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock has measured out his life with coffee spoons. Layers of narration in Heart of Darkness can be viewed as a reflection of the Modern lack of absolutes. This work hypothesizes about Shakespeare’s genius sister who, because a woman, was unsuccessful and committed suicide. In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” there is a conviction that upon death one goes to a happier place. This author adamantly decrees, "It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare." The third and fourth lines of this poem state, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”: Oscar Wilde can be seen as an early modern, a forerunner of the twentieth century's renovations of dramatic form. This work states, “[F]or great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh”: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" can only be interpreted as a work about fighting death. In "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" there is a perception that no one cares if one lives or dies. In "Journey of the Magi," the Magi return home and are comfortable with their old ways of life. This author posits "It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare": When reading Heart of Darkness, white/light always refers to 'good' and black/dark always refers to evil. [Show More]

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