Does Hayne or Timrod love nature more for herself alone?
Select the best stanza from Timrod's _The Lily Confidante_ and compare it
with your favorite stanza from Lanier's _My Springs._ From each of the
poems of Hayne suggested for reading, select some of the most artistic
creations of his fancy.
Indicate the patriotism and the pathos in Father Ryan's verse.
Point out some unique qualities in Tabb's poetry. Is the length of his
poems in accordance with Poe's dictum? Select some passage showing special
delicacy or originality in describing nature.
What in Cawein's verse would indicate that he wrote his poems out of doors?
Compare the definiteness of his references to nature with Hayne's. What
specific references in Cawein's nature poems please you most? Compare
Keats's poems _On the Grasshopper and Cricket, Fancy,_ and stanzas here and
there from _The Eve of St. Agnes_ with Cawein's imagery and method of
appealing to the senses.
Prose.--Take one of Poe's tales, and point out how it illustrates his
theory of the short story given on p. 299. In order to hold the attention
of an average audience, should you select for reading one of Irving's,
Hawthorne's, or Poe's short stories? Should you use the same principle in
selecting one of these stories for a friend to read quietly by himself?
Is Simms dramatic? In what particulars does he remind you of Cooper? In the
selection from _The Yemassee_ (Mims and Payne) are there any qualities
which Poe indicates for a short story?
What is the secret of the attractiveness of the stories of Joel Chandler
Harris? Point out some valuable philosophy of human nature which frequently
crops out.
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