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