Song: Love Lives Beyond the Tomb Quizzes

Song: Love Lives Beyond the Tomb "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb" Quiz

1 In what year was John Clare born?

1813

1783

1793

1803
2 Which poetic movement is John Clare usually seen as a member of?

Gothic

Romantic

Modernist

Classical
3 In what period of his career did John Clare write "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

Middle career

Childhood

Early career

Late career
4 Which famous John Clare poem was written in the same period as "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

"The Badger"

"The Yellowhammer's Nest"

"I Am!"

"Autumn"
5 Which of the following is not a frequent theme in Clare's writing?

Love of nature

Love as an abstraction

Romantic love

Erotic love
6 What does it mean for something to be transcendent?

It does not really exist

It is contained by the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else

It exceeds the limits of the material world
7 What does it mean for something to be immanent?

It does not really exist

It exceeds the limits of the material world

It is contained by the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else
8 Which of the following literary devices is MOST prominent in "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

Metonymy

Metaphor

Alliteration

Repetition
9 Who is the speaker in "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

A besotted lover

An admirer of love

A skeptic of love

A critic of love
10 Which two stanzas feature first person pronouns?

The first and the last

The third and the fifth

The first and the second

The fifth and the sixth
11 Which of the following best paraphrases the second line of the first stanza?

The earth, a tomb which fades like dew

The tombs in the earth, which fade like dew

The tomb fades like dew, unlike the earth

The earth and the tomb, both of which fade like dew
12 What does the first stanza imply about what lovers feel?

Their faithfulness allows them to escape the limits of mortality

The speaker is jealous of what lovers feel

Lovers are foolish, but they are connected to something greater

Even their faithfulness cannot escape the limits of mortality
13 Which of the following best characterizes the style of "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

Mnimalist

Flowery

Opaque

Dense
14 How does the first stanza present love?

As a tragic mistake

As a part of ordinary life

As something separate from ordinary life

As something only naive young people believe in
15 What does dew symbolize in the first stanza?

Ephemerality

Beauty

Joy

Sadness
16 Which of the following influences most likely led Clare to emphasize the earth's impermanence?

Rural life

His failing career

Science

Christianity
17 What is the origin of the phrase "God is love"?

The creation story in Genesis

The Acts of the Apostles

The Book of Revelations

The Gospel of John
18 Which line of the second stanza suggests that dream love is an illusion?

Love lives in sleep

But love delightful seems.

'Tis happiness of healthy dreams

Eve’s dews may weep,
19 What shift happens in the third stanza?

Clare shifts from portraying love in a negative light to a positive light

Clare shifts from portraying love in a positive light to a negative light

Clare shifts from discussing love only as an individual feeling, to love as an abstract concept

Clare shifts from emphasizing love's difference from the world, to love's presence in it
20 Which of the following is not ephemeral as John Clare presents it in the third stanza?

The earth's green hours

The spring

The sky

The dew
21 Which two lines from the third and fourth stanzas do NOT employ parallel motifs?

"'Tis seen in flowers," and "‘Tis heard in spring"

"‘Tis heard in spring" and "Bring love and music to the wind."

"And in the even's pearly dew" and "And in the heaven's eternal blue."

"'Tis seen in flowers," and "On earth's green hours,"
22 In which of the following ways does "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb" resemble Clare's other nature poetry?

It does not describe particular creatures

It presents the natural world in abstract terms

It links love and the natural world

It is not grounded in any particular place
23 Which of the following words appears in the final stanza but not the first?

Faithful and young

Dew and young

Flowers and young

Tomb and dew
24 What is the rhyme scheme of "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

AABB

ABAB

AAAB

AAAA
25 How does John Clare ultimately present the relationship between love, immanence, and transcendence in "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

He presents love as only immanent

He presents love as neither immanent nor transcendent

He presents both immanence and transcendence as dimensions of love

He presents love as only transcendent

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