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?

1783

1813

1803

1793
2 Which poetic movement is John Clare usually seen as a member of?

Gothic

Modernist

Classical

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

Early career

Childhood

Middle career

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

"Autumn"

"The Yellowhammer's Nest"

"I Am!"

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

Love as an abstraction

Erotic love

Romantic love

Love of nature
6 What does it mean for something to be transcendent?

It does not really exist

It exceeds the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else

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

It exceeds the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else

It does not really exist

It is contained by the limits of the material world
8 Which of the following literary devices is MOST prominent in "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?

Repetition

Metonymy

Metaphor

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

A besotted lover

A critic of love

A skeptic of love

An admirer of love
10 Which two stanzas feature first person pronouns?

The first and the last

The first and the second

The fifth and the sixth

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

The earth and the tomb, both of which fade like dew

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
12 What does the first stanza imply about what lovers feel?

Lovers are foolish, but they are connected to something greater

Their faithfulness allows them to escape the limits of mortality

The speaker is jealous of what lovers feel

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

Dense

Opaque

Flowery

Mnimalist
14 How does the first stanza present love?

As a part of ordinary life

As something separate from ordinary life

As a tragic mistake

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

Ephemerality

Sadness

Joy

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

Christianity

His failing career

Science

Rural life
17 What is the origin of the phrase "God is love"?

The Gospel of John

The creation story in Genesis

The Book of Revelations

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

Eve’s dews may weep,

But love delightful seems.

'Tis happiness of healthy dreams

Love lives in sleep
19 What shift happens in the third stanza?

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

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

Clare shifts from emphasizing love's difference from the world, to love's presence in it

Clare shifts from discussing love only as an individual feeling, to love as an abstract concept
20 Which of the following is not ephemeral as John Clare presents it in the third stanza?

The sky

The earth's green hours

The dew

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

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

"'Tis seen in flowers," and "On earth's green hours,"

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

"And in the even's pearly dew" and "And in the heaven's eternal blue."
22 In which of the following ways does "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb" resemble Clare's other nature poetry?

It presents the natural world in abstract terms

It links love and the natural world

It does not describe particular creatures

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

Dew and young

Flowers and young

Faithful and young

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

AAAA

AAAB

ABAB

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

He presents both immanence and transcendence as dimensions of love

He presents love as only transcendent

He presents love as neither immanent nor transcendent

He presents love as only immanent

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