Lovings

What is the effect of the repetition of the following line?

"Then when we live no more, we may live ever."

• It intensifies the speaker's frustration with their marraige.

• It reinforces that love ultimately ends in sadness and death.

• It emphasizes that she hopes they will be together in both life and death.

What is the tone of the speaker towards her husband?

• Hilarious

• Devoted

• Irritated

• Uninterested

What is the effect of the description within the following lines?

"I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,

Or all the riches that the East doth hold."

• It values the beauty of having various possessions.

• It states how much the speaker treasures her husband.

• It shows the award one will earn when traveling overseas.

• It demonstrates how the husband values wealth over anything else.

What is the central idea of the poem?

• The speaker declares how much love both she and her husband experience.

• The speaker recognizes that marriage has positive and negative elements.

• The speaker sympathizes with those who have never been in love.

• The speaker maintains she cannot believe how blessed she is.

What do the following lines reveal about the speaker?

"Thy love is such I can no way repay;

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray"

• Her frustration with the inability to pay debt

• Her graterfulness for her husband's devotion

• Her thankfulness for being able to love

• Her inexperience with a dying love

What is the speaker's purpose in the following line?

"Compare with me, ye women, if you can"

• To argue that she loves more strongly than other wives

• To highlight how different she is from other women

• To exaggerate her love for her husband

• To defend her rights as a mother

How does the structure of the poem affect its meaning?

• The middle of the poem contradicts the speaker's view of her husband.

• The end reinforces the beginning by referencing the couple's unity.

• The last stanza weakens the overall mood of sorrow and despair.

• The entire poem is supported by examples of why she loves.

Do you think the speaker loves her husband as much as she says does? Why or why not? Explain.

Which are two reasons the author uses rhyming couplets throughout the poem?

• To clarify the relationship of the author and her husband

• To create a musical quality in the selection

• To convey the setting of the selection

• To echo the pairing of the author and her husband

• To persuade people to imagine the importance of their marriages

In line 7, the poet describes her own love as —

"My love is such that rivers cannot quench"

• difficult to define

• always visibly changing

• beyond monetary value

• impossible to end