William Cullen Bryant
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A short quiz on William Cullen Bryant and his poem "Thanatopsis"
Questions and Answers
- 1.What was William Cullen Bryants profession before becoming a poet?
- A.
A politician/lawyer.
- B.
Nothing, he was always a poet.
- C.
Teacher
- D.
Priest
- E.
House cleaner
- 2.William Cullen Bryant supported what 4 things with his life style and writing?
- 3.Pathetic Fallacy
- A.
Nature hates man
- B.
Nature sympathizes with man
- C.
Nature hides from man out of fear
- 4.He used Nature as a
- A.
Villian
- B.
Nothing, he hated nature
- C.
Healer and teacher
- 5.Did he use Blank Verse in "Thanatopsis"
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Did he use the Great Equalizer and what is it?
- A.
YES, death is the great equalizer. ex: it makes a rich man equal to a poor man when they are both dead.
- B.
YES, the great equalizer is an arbitrator brought in to settle his characters problems unbaised
- C.
NO, the great equalizer was a creature that came from nature to make humans equal to the nature
- D.
NO, the great equalizer is not real
- 7.Explain in two ways how William Cullen Bryants writing supports Neoclassism, and then romanticism. use examples from "Thanatopsis"
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