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Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.

The Eolian Harp*

My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined

Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is

To sit beside our Cot, our Cot o'ergrown

With white-flower'd Jasmin, and the broad-leav'd Myrtle,

Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!)

And watch the clouds, that late were rich with light,

Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eve

Serenely brilliant (such should Wisdom be)

Shine opposite! How exquisite the scents

Snatch'd from yon bean-field! and the world so hush'd!

The stilly murmur of the distant Sea

Tells us of silence.

And that simplest Lute,

Placed length-ways in the clasping casement, hark!

How by the desultory breeze caress'd,

Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover,

It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs

Tempt to repeat the wrong! And now, its strings

Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes

Over delicious surges sink and rise,

Such a soft floating witchery of sound

As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve

Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land,

Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers,

Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,

Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untam'd wing!

O! the one Life within us and abroad,

Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,

A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,

Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where—

Methinks, it should have been impossible

Not to love all things in a world so fill'd;

Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air

Is Music slumbering on her instrument.

And thus, my Love! as on the midway slope

Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,

Whilst through my half-clos'd eye-lids I behold

The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main,

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And tranquil muse upon tranquility;

Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd,

And many idle flitting phantasies,

Traverse my indolent and passive brain,

As wild and various as the random gales

That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!

And what if all of animated nature

Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,

That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps

Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,

At once the Soul of each, and God of all?

But thy more serious eye a mild reproof

Darts, O belovéd Woman! nor such thoughts

Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject,

And biddest me walk humbly with my God.

Meek Daughter in the family of Christ!

Well hast thou said and holily disprais'd

These shapings of the unregenerate mind;

Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break

On vain Philosophy's aye-babbling spring.

For never guiltless may I speak of him,

The Incomprehensible! save when with awe

I praise him, and with Faith that inly feels;

Who with his saving mercies healéd me,

A sinful and most miserable man,

Wilder'd and dark, and gave me to possess

Peace, and this Cot, and thee, heart-honour'd Maid!

*A box with strings across its open ends that makes music as the breeze passes through it

1. It can be inferred that Sara’s attitude toward the speaker’s speculations is one of

(A) open hostility

(B) gentle disapproval

(D) fond admiration

(E) respectful awe

2. In the last section of the poem (lines 49–64), the speaker implies that to try to fathom the “Incomprehensible” (line

59) is

(40)

(45)

(50)

(55)

(60)

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(A) every thinking person’s duty

(B) possible only through metaphor

(D) the true function of music and poetry

(E) an act of overweening pride

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Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.

The Eolian Harp*

My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined

Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is

To sit beside our Cot, our Cot o'ergrown

With white-flower'd Jasmin, and the broad-leav'd Myrtle,

Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!)

And watch the clouds, that late were rich with light,

Slow saddening round, and mark the star of eve

Serenely brilliant (such should Wisdom be)

Shine opposite! How exquisite the scents

Snatch'd from yon bean-field! and the world so hush'd!

The stilly murmur of the distant Sea

Tells us of silence.

And that simplest Lute,

Placed length-ways in the clasping casement, hark!

How by the desultory breeze caress'd,

Like some coy maid half yielding to her lover,

It pours such sweet upbraiding, as must needs

Tempt to repeat the wrong! And now, its strings

Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes

Over delicious surges sink and rise,

Such a soft floating witchery of sound

As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve

Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land,

Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers,

Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise,

Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untam'd wing!

O! the one Life within us and abroad,

Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,

A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,

Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where—

Methinks, it should have been impossible

Not to love all things in a world so fill'd;

Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air

Is Music slumbering on her instrument.

And thus, my Love! as on the midway slope

Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,

Whilst through my half-clos'd eye-lids I behold

The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main,

And tranquil muse upon tranquility;

(5)

(10)

(15)

(20)

(25)

(30)

(35)

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Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd,

And many idle flitting phantasies,

Traverse my indolent and passive brain,

As wild and various as the random gales

That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!

And what if all of animated nature

Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,

That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps

Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,

At once the Soul of each, and God of all?

But thy more serious eye a mild reproof

Darts, O belovéd Woman! nor such thoughts

Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject,

And biddest me walk humbly with my God.

Meek Daughter in the family of Christ!

Well hast thou said and holily disprais'd

These shapings of the unregenerate mind;

Bubbles that glitter as they rise and break

On vain Philosophy's aye-babbling spring.

For never guiltless may I speak of him,

The Incomprehensible! save when with awe

I praise him, and with Faith that inly feels;

Who with his saving mercies healéd me,

A sinful and most miserable man,

Wilder'd and dark, and gave me to possess

Peace, and this Cot, and thee, heart-honour'd Maid!

*A box with strings across its open ends that makes music as the breeze passes through it

3. In the last section of the poem, the speaker implies that to try to fathom the "Incomprehensible" (line 59) is

(A) every thinking person's duty

(B) possible only through metaphor

(D) the true function of music and poetry

(E) an act of overweening pride

(40)

(45)

(50)

(55)

(60)

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Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.

To an Inconstant One

I loved thee once; I’ll love no more —

Thine be the grief as is the blame;

Thou art not what thou wast before,

What reason I should be the same?

(5) He that can love unloved again,

Hath better store of love than brain:

God send me love my debts to pay,

While unthrifts fool their love away!

Nothing could have my love o’erthrown

(10) If thou hadst still continued mine;

Yea, if thou hadst remained thy own,

I might perchance have yet been thine.

But thou thy freedom didst recall

That it thou might elsewhere enthral:

(15) And then how could I but disdain

A captive’s captive to remain?

When new desires had conquered thee

And changed the object of thy will,

It had been lethargy in me,

(20) Not constancy, to love thee still.

Yea, it had been a sin to go

And prostitute affection so:

Since we are taught no prayers to say

To such as must to others pray.

(25) Yet do thou glory in thy choice—

Thy choice of his good fortune boast;

I’ll neither grieve nor yet rejoice

To see him gain what I have lost:

The height of my disdain shall be

(30) To laugh at him, to blush for thee;

To love thee still, but go no more

A-begging at a beggar’s door.

4. Which of the following best paraphrases lines 11-12 ?

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(A) If you had remained true to yourself, I might perhaps still be yours.

(B) If you had not kept to yourself, I might have known you better.

(D) If you had stayed with me, I might have remained loyal to you.

(E) If you had not left, I might have possibly asked for your hand in marriage.

5. In lines 19-24, the speaker explains that he would have

(A) disrespected his lover by remaining loyal to her out of a sense of duty rather than love

(B) disappointed his lover if he had fallen in love with someone else

(D) denied himself true love by settling on the first woman available to him

(E) shortchanged himself if he had courted another woman not good enough for him

6. In line 5, the speaker refers to one who

(A) falls in and out of love repeatedly

(B) consistently falls in love with those who spurn his affections

(D) tends to love those who are rejected by others

(E) continues to love someone who no longer loves him

7. In the final stanza (lines 25-32), the speaker claims that he will

(A) support his lover in her choice of a new suitor

(B) maintain a measured sense of detachment from his lover and her new suitor

(D) revel in criticizing the faults of his lover and her new suitor

(E) try to keep himself from feeling too sad due to the loss of his lover

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Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.

Remembrance

Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee,

Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave!

Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,

Severed at last by Time’s all-severing wave?

Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover

Over the mountains, on that northern shore,

Resting their wings where heath and fern-leaves cover

Thy noble heart for ever, ever more?

Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers,

From those brown hills, have melted into spring:

Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers

After such years of change and suffering!

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,

While the world’s tide is bearing me along;

Other desires and other hopes beset me,

Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!

No later light has lightened up my heaven,

No second morn has ever shone for me;

All my life’s bliss from thy dear life was given,

All my life’s bliss is in the grave with thee.

But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,

And even Despair was powerless to destroy;

Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,

Strengthened and fed without the aid of joy.

Then did I check the tears of useless passion—

Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;

Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten

Down to that tomb already more than mine.

And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,

Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;

Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,

How could I seek the empty world again?

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(1846)

8. In context, “but cannot do thee wrong” (line 16) is best understood to express the speaker’s

(A) certainty that the loved one will forgive any transgressions

(B) concern that an act of betrayal would be morally wrong

(D) belief that no future love will supplant the former one

(E) fear that the loved one is beyond caring about their relationship

9. Which best describes the speaker’s implication in lines 11-12 ?

(A) Only someone remarkably devoted can retain the memory of an absent loved one over time.

(B) Only people who embrace a higher faith can successfully live with their grief.

(D) The bereaved must choose to forget the past in order to bear their losses.

(E) People who dwell on the past are usually unable to move beyond their personal losses.

10. Which is the best paraphrase of line 26 ?

(A) Trained myself not to miss you

(B) Taught myself to forgive you

(D) Wished that I could help you

(E) Prayed that I could be free of you

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Read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers.

Advice to a Prophet

When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,

Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,

Not proclaiming our fall but begging us

In God’s name to have self-pity,

Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range,

The long numbers that rocket the mind;

Our slow, unreckoning hearts will be left behind,

Unable to fear what is too strange.

Nor shall you scare us with talk of the death of the race.

How should we dream of this place without us?–

The sun mere fire, the leaves untroubled about us,

A stone look on the stone’s face?

Speak of the world’s own change. Though we cannot conceive

Of an undreamt thing, we know to our cost

How the dreamt cloud crumbles, the vines are blackened by frost,

How the view alters. We could believe,

If you told us so, that the white-tailed deer will slip

Into perfect shade, grown perfectly shy,

The lark avoid the reaches of our eye,

The jack-pine lose its knuckled grip

On the cold ledge, and every torrent burn

As Xanthus* once, its gliding trout

Stunned in a twinkling. What should we be without

The dolphin’s arc, the dove’s return,

These things in which we have seen ourselves and spoken?

Ask us, prophet, how we shall call

Our natures forth when that live tongue is all

Dispelled, that glass obscured or broken

In which we have said the rose of our love and the clean

Horse of our courage, in which beheld

The singing locust of the soul unshelled,

And all we mean or wish to mean.

Ask us, ask us whether with the worldless rose

Our hearts shall fail us; come demanding

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Whether there shall be lofty or long standing

When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close.

* in Greek myth, a river scalded by Hephaestus, god of fire

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prior written permission of the publisher.

11. In line 13 (“Speak of the world’s own change”), the speaker is doing which of the following?

(A) Anticipating the prophet’s own advice

(B) Despairing of ever influencing the prophet

(D) Heeding the prophet’s advice

(E) Prescribing what the prophet should say

12. In lines 1–12, the speaker assumes that the prophet will come proclaiming

(A) a new religious dispensation

(B) joyous self-awareness

(D) the horror of self-destruction

(E) an appreciation of nature

(35)

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Read the following excerpt carefully before you choose your answers.

Yonder’s a work now, of that famous youth

The Urbinate1 who died five years ago.

(’Tis copied, George Vasari sent it me.)

Well, I can fancy how he did it all,

(5) Pouring his soul, with kings and popes to see,

Reaching, that heaven might so replenish him,

Above and through his art—for it gives way;

That arm is wrongly put—and there again—

A fault to pardon in the drawing’s lines,

(10) Its body, so to speak: its soul is right,

He means right—that, a child may understand.

Still, what an arm! and I could alter it:

But all the play, the insight and the stretch—

Out of me, out of me! And wherefore out?

(15) Had you enjoined them on me, given me soul,

We might have risen to Rafael, I and you!

Nay, Love, you did give all I asked, I think—

More than I merit, yes, by many times.

But had you—oh, with the same perfect brow,

(20) And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth,

And the low voice my soul hears, as a bird

The fowler’s pipe, and follows to the snare—

Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind!

Some women do so. Had the mouth there urged

(25) “God and the glory! never care for gain.

The present by the future, what is that?

Live for fame, side by side with Agnolo!2

Rafael is waiting: up to God, all three!”

I might have done it for you. So it seems:

(30) Perhaps not. All is as God over-rules.

Beside, incentives come from the soul’s self;

The rest avail not. Why do I need you?

What wife had Rafael, or has Agnolo?

In this world, who can do a thing, will not;

(35) And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:

Yet the will’s somewhat—somewhat, too, the power—

And thus we half-men struggle. At the end,

God, I conclude, compensates, punishes.

’Tis safer for me, if the award be strict,

(40) That I am something underrated here,

Poor this long while, despised, to speak the truth.

[. . .]

If you would sit thus by me every night

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I should work better, do you comprehend?

I mean that I should earn more, give you more.

(45) See, it is settled dusk now; there’s a star;

Morello’s3 gone, the watch-lights show the wall,

The cue-owls speak the name we call them by.

Come from the window, love,—come in, at last,

Inside the melancholy little house

(50) We built to be so gay with. God is just.

(1855)

1Rafael, Italian painter (1483-1520)

2Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (1475-1564)

3A mountain north of Florence

13. In lines 30-41 the speaker is best characterized as doing which of the following?

(A) Appealing to his listener’s prejudice

(B) Thinking and reasoning aloud

(D) Describing by means of metaphor

(E) Constructing a personal narrative

14. Lines 34-35 are based on a distinction between

(A) talent and genius

(B) success and failure

(D) pretense and reality

(E) present and future

15. The speaker probably believes that it is “safer” (line 39) for him to be “something underrated here” (line 40)

because thus he

(A) can inspire pity in those closest to him

(B) may be better rewarded after death

(D) can strive for improvement during his lifetime

(E) will be less prone to egotism and self-love

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16. In saying “and I could alter it” (line 12), the speaker is

(A) expressing a desire to change his way of life

(B) commenting on the social conditions of his time

(D) resolving to become as great as Rafael

(E) asserting his own technical superiority

17. The phrase “Inside . . . with” (lines 49-50) suggests that the speaker’s

(A) career is coming to an end

(B) work will not prosper

(D) home is his chief solace

(E) expectations have not been fulfilled

18. In lines 15-30, the speaker blames “you” (line 15) for not

(A) loving him with enough fervor

(B) coming to his aid in despair

(D) curbing his soaring ambition

(E) encouraging him to fulfill a higher vision

19. The contrast that the speaker sees in Rafael’s work is best described as one between

(A) technical skill and spiritual power

(B) aesthetic excellence and commercial worth

(D) critical judgment and spontaneous expression

(E) religious piety and worldly success

20. The speaker’s attitude toward Rafael’s work is best described as alternating between

(A) irony and envy

(B) criticism and admiration

(D) pleasure and despair

(E) indifference and scorn

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