Poetry Questions

Directions: Each writing should be a multi-paragraph response, but the quality of your answer is more important than the length of your answer.

Discuss Robert Frost’s use of images such as walls that both connect and separate (870), spire-like birches that allow him both to ascend and to descend (876), and paths that lead him both toward and away from where he ought to be in life (877).

A. Discuss why Mrs. Mallard really dies in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” (174).

· Discuss the characterization of Bartleby in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” (406) and why Bartleby repeatedly says, “I prefer not to.”