{"id":56,"date":"2014-05-22T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&p=56"},"modified":"2019-07-05T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T18:21:22","slug":"a-e-housman","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/a-e-housman\/","title":{"raw":"Study Questions, Activities, and Resources","rendered":"Study Questions, Activities, and Resources"},"content":{"raw":"
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Study Questions and Activities<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n

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Loveliest of Trees<\/h1>\r\n
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  1. How old is the speaker in the poem?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. What is the setting of the poem (i.e., time and place)?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. What is the speaker\u2019s purpose in the poem?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. What is the significance of the word \u201cEastertide\u201d?<\/li>\r\n \t
  5. What kind of cycle is suggested by the second stanza, and how is this connected to Eastertide and nature?<\/li>\r\n \t
  6. What is the theme of the poem?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree<\/h1>\r\n
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    1. What is the dramatic situation of the poem (i.e., who is talking to whom, where, when)?<\/li>\r\n \t
    2. Who is Terence?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      To an Athlete Dying Young<\/h1>\r\n
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      1. What is the \u201cstiller town\u201d (line 5)?<\/li>\r\n \t
      2. Why does the speaker call the athlete \u201csmart\u201d?<\/li>\r\n \t
      3. Clarify the meaning of \u00a0\u201clow lintel\u201d (line 23).<\/li>\r\n \t
      4. Is this a carpe diem<\/i> poem?<\/li>\r\n \t
      5. In a brief essay, compare and contrast this poem with John Updike\u2019s \u201cEx-Basketball Player.\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t
      6. What is the predominant metre in the poem?<\/li>\r\n \t
      7. Give examples of alliteration, consonance, and assonance.<\/li>\r\n \t
      8. Give examples of end-stopped and run-on lines.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

        Is My Team Ploughing?<\/h1>\r\n
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        1. According to Thomas Hardy\u2019s widow, this was Hardy's favourite Housman poem. Compare it with Hardy\u2019s \u201cAh, Are You Digging on My Grave?\u201d<\/li>\r\n \t
        2. Of the three kinds of irony \u2014 verbal, situational, and dramatic \u2014 which type do you find in this poem? Discuss.<\/li>\r\n \t
        3. View Ian Bostridge\u2019s rendition of Ralph Vaughan Williams\u2019s \u201cIs My Team Ploughing.\u201d How does the singer emphasize the colloquy between the living and the dead? https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yDvP0Lnh1-Q\r\n