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Edmund Spenser
__**Question One:**__ Read the biography of Sir Edmund Spenser by clicking "biography" or going to this link: @http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm. Pay special attention to all dates in the biography. Then match the date to the event that happened. Remember to keep your answers in a document as you go through these questions.
 * __Answer:__** The correct answer is next to the correct date in the table.
 * 1552 ||= Edmund Spenser is born ||
 * 1590 ||= //The Faerie Queene//, Books I-III published in London ||
 * 1594 ||= Edmund Spenser marries Elizabeth Boyle ||
 * 1595 ||= Publication of //Amoretti// and //Astrophel// ||
 * 1598 ||= Edmund Spenser is designated Sheriff of Cork ||
 * __Question Two:__** Go to this site and read through the list of famous quotes by Sir Edmund Spenser. Find your favorite quote and explain why it is your favorite in 3-5 sentences. Take what you learned in the biography of Spenser and mention why you think he used that quote, what the meaning of the quote is, in 2-3 sentences.
 * __Answer:__** Answers will vary per student, but a sample answer goes as follows: "'Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.' Faerie Queene, Introduction, Stanza One. I liked this quote because it plays at the theme that music comes from experience. We all have experiences that help us be creative and write stories and music. We have to take both the "fierce" and the "faithful" parts of life and mix them together to create art worth sharing. I think Spenser used this quote because he was looking for a faithful love at the time; someone that could handle his "fierce warres" and "moralize his song." After his marriage, he went on to publish Books IV-VI of The Faerie Queene, so it could be said that Elizabeth Boyle helped influence his work, even though this line was written beforehand. I think he used it to tell the world that even though there are fierce parts and lovely parts to life, we have to embrace both in order to live a lift that is moral and wonderful.

__**Question Three:**__ Read Book One Canto Four of //The Faerie Queene// and find one line or phrase from the poem that describes each of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Also mention in 1-3 sentences why you think that line describes the deadly sin it references. Lust: "And whally eyes (the signe of gelosy)" (Line 210) and "Full of vaine follies, and new fanglenesse" (Line 220) Gluttony: "His belly was up-blowne with luxury" (Line 183) and "With which he swallowd up excessive feast" (Line 186) Greed: "Upon a Camell loaden all with gold" (Line 236) and "Who had enough, but wished ever more" (Line 257) Sloth: "And greatly shunned manly exercise" (Line 173) and "Scarse could he once uphold his heavie hed." (Line 167) Wrath: "For of his hands he had no governement" (Line 301) and "Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath" (Line 309) Envy: "At neighbours wealth, that made him ever sad" (Line 267) and "He hated all good workes and vertuous deeds" (Line 280) Pride: Pride is never outright mentioned as a knight of the Faerie Queene, but everyone shows a lot of pride in their actions. You could have used any of the lines in the poem showcasing "prideful" actions.
 * __Answer:__** Answers will vary per student, but various lines might include (the essay answers will be judged by me):

**Edgar Allan Poe**
__**Question Four:**__ Read this short [|biography]of Edgar Allen Poe here. What event may have triggered the poet's eventual demise? //**Answer:**// "Virginia died in 1847. Poe turned to alcohol more frequently and was purportedly displaying increasingly erratic behavior."

__**Question Five:**__ Visit this [|site] and read through the poems //Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Bells, The Haunted Palace//, and //The Conqeror Worm//. Match the vocabulary word to the correct title: Worm || __**Question Six:**__ Read this [|timeline] of Poe's life; what three poems were published posthumously, and in what year? __**Answer:**__ The Bells, Annabel Lee, El Dorado - 1849
 * Sepulchre || The Conqueror
 * Porphyrogene || The Bells ||
 * Bedight || The Haunted Palace ||
 * Gilead || Annabel Lee ||
 * Expostulation || The Raven ||
 * __Answer:__**
 * Sepulchre || Annabel Lee ||
 * Porphyrogene || The Haunted Palance ||
 * Bedight || The Conqueror Worm ||
 * Gilead || The Raven ||
 * Expostulation || The Bells ||

Robert Frost

 * __Question Seven:__** Many of Robert Frost's writings have strong themes of nature. Read this biography and explain in 3-4 sentences why you believe he felt so comfortable writing about nature so often.
 * __Answer:__** //Answers will vary per student, but an example would be:// Robert Frost lived did not receive distinction for his poetry until much later in his life. Even then, he was never able to make a living entirely off of being a poet. He and his family lived in Derry, New Hampshire for nine years in which time Frost gained an interest in botany and began to use his life on a small farm as inspiration for his poems. Because of his time on this small farm, Frost was able to develop a style that relied heavily on these themes.


 * __Question Eight:__** Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry - the most of any poet. Read this timeline and list what works he won the awards for and what year they were published.
 * __Answer:__** 1923 - //New Hampshire,// 1931 - //Collected Poems//, 1937 - //A Further Range//, 1943 - //A Witness Tree//

And be my love in the rain. ” || //Created by://
 * __Question Nine:__** On the right hand side of this site you will fins some of Robert Frost's most popular poems. Take some time to read through the following poems: //Out, Out--; A Line-Storm Song; Birches; Blueberries; Bond and Free; Going for Water; Mending Wall; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Road Not Taken.// Match the lines to the poem it belongs to.
 * __Answer:__**
 * "Out, Out—" || “And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright.” ||
 * A Line-storm Song || “Come over the hills and far with me,
 * Birches || “And life is too much like a pathless wood” ||
 * Blueberries || “The blue's but a mist from the breath of the wind” ||
 * Bond and Free || “For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.” ||
 * Going for Water || “We ran as if to meet the moon ” ||
 * Mending Wall || “He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'” ||
 * Nothing Gold Can Stay || “So dawn goes down to day. ” ||
 * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening || “And miles to go before I sleep. ” ||
 * The Road Not Taken || “I took the one less traveled by” ||
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