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

1793

1783

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

Classical

Modernist

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

Late career

Middle career

Early career
4 Which famous John Clare poem was written in the same period as "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?
"The Yellowhammer's Nest"

"The Badger"

"Autumn"

"I Am!"
5 Which of the following is not a frequent theme in Clare's writing?
Erotic love

Love as an abstraction

Love of nature

Romantic 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 exceeds the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else
7 What does it mean for something to be immanent?
It is connected to something else

It exceeds the limits of the material world

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"?
Alliteration

Metaphor

Metonymy

Repetition
9 Who is the speaker in "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?
An admirer of love

A critic of love

A besotted lover

A skeptic of love
10 Which two stanzas feature first person pronouns?
The first and the second

The fifth and the sixth

The first and the last

The third and the fifth
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?
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

Their faithfulness allows them to escape the limits of mortality
13 Which of the following best characterizes the style of "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?
Opaque

Flowery

Dense

Mnimalist
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?
Beauty

Ephemerality

Sadness

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

Christianity

Science

His failing career
17 What is the origin of the phrase "God is love"?
The Acts of the Apostles

The Gospel of John

The creation story in Genesis

The Book of Revelations
18 Which line of the second stanza suggests that dream love is an illusion?
Eve’s dews may weep,

'Tis happiness of healthy dreams

Love lives in sleep

But love delightful seems.
19 What shift happens in the third stanza?
Clare shifts from discussing love only as an individual feeling, to love as an abstract concept

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
20 Which of the following is not ephemeral as John Clare presents it in the third stanza?
The dew

The spring

The earth's green hours

The sky
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 does not describe particular creatures

It links love and the natural world

It is not grounded in any particular place

It presents the natural world in abstract terms
23 Which of the following words appears in the final stanza but not the first?
Tomb and dew

Flowers and young

Dew and young

Faithful and young
24 What is the rhyme scheme of "Love Lives Beyond the Tomb"?
AAAA

AABB

ABAB

AAAB
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 only immanent

He presents love as neither immanent nor transcendent

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