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6. Which poem includes the line "remote as if in history, rumours of what had touched my friends, my foes or me." written when Thomas was ill?

  • Melancholy
  • But these things also
  • The sun used to shine

7. In which poem are simple descriptions such as "the cuckoo crying over the untouched dew" and "small dark drops"?

  • The Glory
  • Aspens
  • But these things also

8. In which poem does Thomas refer to poetry, writing "Choose me, you English words?" and "Fixed and free, in a rhyme, as poets do"?

  • The Sun used to Shine
  • Words
  • But these things also

9. In which poem does Thomas refer to his own father as "that fat patriot" and states "I have not to choose between the two"?

  • Words
  • This is no case of petty right or wrong
  • But these things also

10. "rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain" refers to an outpouring of emotion in which poem?

  • Tears
  • Rain
  • Melancholy

11. Thomas "kept a helpless fretting" in which poem that talks of his mother as "a pine in solitude craddling a dove"?

  • No one so much as you
  • But these things also
  • Gone, gone again

12. Which poem mentions traditional ancient battles in reference to a time gone by? "Caesar's battles" and "In Sunless Hades Fields"

  • The Sun Used to Shine
  • Blenheim Oranges
  • Gone, Gone Again

13. What mention of the war does Thomas give in The Sun Used to Shine?

  • "To turn young men to dung"
  • "The fallen apples, all the talks and silences- like memory
  • "Rumours of the war remote"
  • "I watched the clods crumble"
  • "Remote as if in history, rumours of what had touched my friends, my foes or me."

14. In which two poems does Thomas refer to Robert Frost explicitly? e.g. "while we two walked", "when the lost one was here"

  • No one so much as you and Gone, Gone again
  • Gone, Gone again and the Sun used to Shine
  • The Sun used to Shine and No one so much as you

15. Which other poem, along with the Glory "I cannot bite the day to the core.", refers to the impossibility of things?

  • Aspens "over all sorts of weather, men and times"
  • No one so much as you "we cannot speak except in triffles and words weak"
  • Rain "if love it be towards what is perfect"

16. Which poem and quote represents a forced relationship?

  • No one so much as you "loves this my clay or would lament as you it
  • The sun used to shine "while we two walked"
  • As the Team

17. Which poem's last 4 stanzas are one sentence but do not represent an outpouring of emotion?

  • No One so much as you
  • But These Things also
  • Rain

18. In which poem does the structure represent continuity?

  • Words
  • As the Teams Head Brass
  • Rain

19. Which poem includes a dialogue between two people? "'Have you been out yet?'"

  • The sun Used to Shine
  • As the Team
  • No one so much as you

20. In which poem do two people disappear at the start and return at the end of the poem?

  • But these things also
  • As the Teams head brass
  • March