ANSWERS FOR I’M NOBODY
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
1-I’m Nobody! Who are you?
2-Are you – Nobody – too?
3-Then there’s a pair of us!
4-Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
5-How dreary – to be – Somebody!
6-How public – like a
7Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong
June –
8- To an admiring Bog!
The Rainy Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9-The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
10-It rains, and the wind is never weary;
11-The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
12-But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
13-And the day is dark and dreary.
14-My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
15-It rains, and the wind is never weary;
16-My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,
17-But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
18-And the days are dark and dreary.
19-Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
20-Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
21-Thy fate is the common fate of all,
22-Into each life some rain must fall,
23-Some days must be dark and dreary.
1) Why is “Nobody” capitalized in line 1?
2) Lines 1-3 give the reader a sense of
a) Harmony
b) Companionship
c) Happiness
3) What fear is presented to the reader in line 4?
4) Why would line 5 depict irony?
5) What literary device is used in lines 6&7?
6) What is a bog?
7) What is “an admiring bog” symbolizing in line 8?
8) What is the author’s attitude or tone in this
entire poem?
a) Questioning
b) Mocking
c) Pessimistic
d) Hopeful
9) What is the rhyme scheme in each of the three
stanzas of “The Rainy Day”?
10) What poetic device is used in line 9?
11) What poetic device is used in line 10?
12) Compare lines 9 &14- what literary devices are
used? What is the effect?
13) What season is inferred from lines 9-13?
14) What is a “mouldering wall” in line 11?
15) What does the phrase “cease repining” mean in
line 19?
16) How does the tone of the 2nd stanza (lines 1418) compare to the tone of the 3rd stanza (lines
19-23)?
a) The tone shifts from self-pity and
depressing to playful and cheery
b) The tone shifts from self-pity and
depressing to hopeful and festive
c) The tone shifts from self-pity and
depressing to hopeful and logic