December 2007 Literature

<p>okay. good.</p>

<p>
[quote]

In pensive thought recall the fancied scene,
See coronations rise on every green:
Before you pass the imaginary sights
Of lords and earls and dukes and gartered knights,
While the spread fan o'ershades your closing eyes;
Then give one flirt, and all the vision flies.
Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls,
And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls.

[/quote]

doesn't that mean she wanted society .. stuff? lol</p>

<p>about the frost garden poem, she (the poet) linked something to herself... and...?</p>

<p>I believe so</p>

<p>so.. no apostrophe
wanted courtly society stuff
urban versus rural
shadow of wind: ?
-was was the thing with fastidiousness (it was choice C for something)
last stanza shows how the speaker feels
self serving
jasmine flowers: new identity?
uterine tubes/govt program: concerns in larger context (choice B)</p>

<p>Yeah I put self-serving for Prakash!</p>

<p>Nick--you're right, my bad. The right answer was a "courtly society" I just got confused with the other question.
So the lady = longed for a courtly society in an urban setting
the man = longed for the lady in a domesticated rural setting</p>

<p>I put something like.. it goes from sarcastic to personal and affectionate for one ... not sure if this was a right answer though. argh.</p>

<p>I put that too, but I don't remember what the Q was ^ but since we came to the same conclusion I guess we got it correct?</p>

<p>Any more questions on how Louisa viewed Joe Daggett?</p>

<p>-what did the dragon's fabulous teeth symbolic of?
was it something about barbarians? like the barbarians stripped it of its fabulousness just like people would strip books of theirs if books were censored?</p>

<p>yeah I don't think the man necessarily longed for the girl in the rural setting, just that he longed to be with the girl period, and envisioned himself there since that was where she was. The girl definitely wanted to be in the city/town though. The man's was just more about being with her then being in the country. (don't think that would really have affected any answers though)</p>

<p>"sweeping in like common language": what did this mean
"but the variations in that line and the tension produced" - what did "tension" mean? I put something about the surprise of reality and expectations</p>

<p>argh I don't remember what i put for the dragon tooth. sighs. what passage was that even from? the books?</p>

<p>I put generation of life for the dragon's teeth one bc I had no idea where the dragon's teeth allusion came from, but I reasoned that since that's where they were talking about the great power/pos qualities of books it would be something like that. Does anyone have concrete knowledge of that reference?</p>

<p>spiffystars, I think you mixed two answers, but it was surprise between expected and actual or something like that, you probably got it correct.
sweeping in like common language... what were the choices for this, what did you put? I only remember thinking that the frost /cold was sweeping in;
the cold front in weather was compared to the relationship's cold... thingy.. right?</p>

<p>Nick I think you might be right about the generation of life? But the thing is, I didn't quite understand the sentence..
"I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."
what does "being sown up and down" mean? and "spring up armed men"? raise armed men, therefore generate life?</p>

<p>"And as by some vast magic undivined"</p>

<p>What did "undivined" mean? some of the choices were: accidental, understandable (or not understandable.. i don't remember). i actually don't even remember what I put for this one, except that I wasn't sure..</p>

<p>don't remember what I put, it was either B or C though. for the undivined one.</p>

<p>i thought all the passages and corresponding questions were similar to ones encountered in Kaplan & Princeton Rev, but I HATED THE LAST PASSAGE. Everything else was pretty interesting. </p>

<p>I think you discussed this before, but just for clarification's sake, what did you get for the question concerning what the author was saying about the sheaths in lines 9-14? The answers included the wheat being bundled, turned into girls, etc.etc.</p>

<p>for undivined I put irreverent... lol I had no idea. it's probably wrong</p>

<p>Im thinking about cancelling</p>

<p>what would me score be if a i left 5 blank and got around 15 wrong?</p>

<p>hmm I think there it was using "divined" in the sense of figured out, understood, so the answer was like not understood or figured out. could be wrong though..</p>

<p>doesn't irreverent mean "disrespectful"?
and kidchicago, I think your score would be around a... 640 according to kaplan.</p>