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?

1803

1793

1783

1813
2 Which poetic movement is John Clare usually seen as a member of?

Romantic

Modernist

Classical

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

Childhood

Late career

Early career

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

"Autumn"

"I Am!"

"The Yellowhammer's Nest"

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

Love of nature

Erotic love

Romantic love

Love as an abstraction
6 What does it mean for something to be transcendent?

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
7 What does it mean for something to be immanent?

It exceeds the limits of the material world

It is contained by the limits of the material world

It is connected to something else

It does not really exist
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 skeptic of love

A besotted lover
10 Which two stanzas feature first person pronouns?

The fifth and the sixth

The third and the fifth

The first and the last

The first and the second
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 tombs in the earth, which fade like dew

The earth, a tomb which fades like dew

The tomb fades like dew, unlike the earth
12 What does the first stanza imply about what lovers feel?

Their faithfulness allows them to escape the limits of mortality

Lovers are foolish, but they are connected to something greater

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

Flowery

Mnimalist

Opaque
14 How does the first stanza present love?

As something only naive young people believe in

As a part of ordinary life

As something separate from ordinary life

As a tragic mistake
15 What does dew symbolize in the first stanza?

Beauty

Sadness

Ephemerality

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

Science

Rural life

Christianity

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

The Book of Revelations

The Gospel of John

The Acts of the Apostles

The creation story in Genesis
18 Which line of the second stanza suggests that dream love is an illusion?

'Tis happiness of healthy dreams

Eve’s dews may weep,

But love delightful seems.

Love lives in sleep
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 emphasizing love's difference from the world, to love's presence in it

Clare shifts from portraying love in a negative light to a positive light
20 Which of the following is not ephemeral as John Clare presents it in the third stanza?

The earth's green hours

The dew

The sky

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,"

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

"'Tis seen in flowers," and "‘Tis heard in spring"
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 is not grounded in any particular place

It does not describe particular creatures

It links love and the natural world
23 Which of the following words appears in the final stanza but not the first?

Dew and young

Flowers and young

Tomb and dew

Faithful and young
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 neither immanent nor transcendent

He presents love as only immanent

He presents love as only transcendent

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