1 How many different kinds of pain are listed in this poem? 3 4 2 5 2 What kind of literary element is "fouled tunes" (line 4)? simile allegory comparison metaphor 3 What does "wretched" most likely mean in the context of line 6? promiscuous foul, disgusting physically appealing lovely and beautiful 4 What does Baraka mean by "without shadow, or voice, or meaning" when referring to the "hard flesh" that he touches in Stanza II? He is interacting with their flesh but has no contact with their souls They are dead bodies They are monsters They are actually robots 5 What traps the speaker of the poem? The confines of jail His own flesh, which is made into an object by society He is being held captive by a horde of men A factory that he cannot escape 6 What is the first kind of pain listed in this poem ("As now, as all his / flesh hurts me")? being touched with someone that has very rough hands having a skin condition that makes skin-to-skin contact painful jumping into a vat of acid the torture of being stuck inside your body that is not a part of who you actually are 7 What is the second kind of pain given in this poem ("As when she ran from me into / that forest")? pain of abandonment and loss of love worry that she will be eaten by monsters in the forest pain of the unknown not being able to run 8 What goes "higher than even old men thought / God would be" (Stanza V)? a bird a helicopter the mind the devil 9 Who turns out to be a "self, after all" (Stanza VI)? the speaker God the devil the "lost soul" 10 What kind of literary element is "whithered yellow flowers" in Stanza V? metonymy simile hyperbole metaphor 11 How is beauty practiced in Stanza V? through nature, like trees and a river through pain through poetry through the separation between soul and body 12 What does the speaker *actually* live inside? his body his home New York City human love 13 What can the speaker be recognized as? words and emotion his height and weight where he lives his facial features 14 What has no feeling in Stanza VIII? the body metal the soul words 15 What is left screaming by the end of the poem? the "lost soul" the speaker's lover the soul that is trapped inside of its body everyone 16 Based on textual evidence, who could be the "lost soul" the speaker refers to in Stanza V? the person the speaker abandoned in a past life Jack Kerouac white people Baraka's first wife, Hattie Jones 17 What kind of literary element is "blind" (Stanza V)? metaphor hyperbole onomatopoeia simile 18 What kind of literary device is used in "silver, spiraled, whirled" (Stanza V)? alliteration assonance metonymy onomatopoeia 19 What does "corrupt" most likely mean in the context of line 35? healthy debased/depraved complete together 20 What is the closest definition of "gale" in the context of Stanza VI? a type of bridge a forest a courtyard a windy place 21 What kind of associations come up with the actions of "the cold men in their gale" in Stanza VI? fear, death, destruction harmony, unity, peace religion, sacredness, awe ritual, conformity, collectivity 22 In other words, what do the speaker's enemies do to him in Stanza III? carry him in a ritualistic procession as if preparing him for sacrifice kill him offer him the tools necessary to have a successful life make him read lots of books and expand his mind 23 Why does the speaker call flesh "an abstraction" is Stanza III? someone's flesh is often obstructed by clothing any perception of the body is influenced by societal conventions his flesh has been cut up and deformed through torture bodies are very beautiful and often the skin looks like a work of art 24 What "glows as the day with its sun" (Stanza VII)? the gale that the cold men are living in God the sky flesh, symbolized by metal that is so hot it becomes white 25 Why might have Baraka chosen to repeat "the yes" the times in Stanzas V-VI? because it sounds cool it creates a repetition of rhythm and speeds up the meter towards the climax of the poem; also helps the poem sound more musical to bring up different kinds of "yes" to really emphasize what he is referring to
