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The document contains a series of questions and prompts related to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'Tithonus'. It includes multiple-choice questions about the poem's themes, characters, and literary devices, as well as open-ended questions that require reasoning based on the text. The questions aim to assess comprehension and interpretation of the poem's content and meaning.

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Tithonus HW

The document contains a series of questions and prompts related to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem 'Tithonus'. It includes multiple-choice questions about the poem's themes, characters, and literary devices, as well as open-ended questions that require reasoning based on the text. The questions aim to assess comprehension and interpretation of the poem's content and meaning.

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Tithonus

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Choose the correct option for the following questions.


1. How do the ‘vapours weep their burthen’?
a. The clouds burst on the hills.
b. The vapours dissolve in the sea.
c. The clouds dissolve into rain.
d. None of the above.

2. Who is consuming ‘Me’ in the first stanza?


a. Pride
b. Immortality
c. Mortality
d. Beauty

3. What is referred to by the ‘quiet limit of the world’?


a. The eastern horizon
b. The home of Goddess Eos
c. The end of human life
d. Both (a) and (b)

4. Which type of poetry is used in the poem ‘Tithonus’?


a. Sonnet
b. Ode
c. Ballad
d. Dramatic Monologue

5. What does the poet bemoan as he looks at earth?


a. The suffering of man
b. The death of all things
c. His immortality
d. None of the above

6. Who is described in the line – ‘So glorious in his beauty’?


a. God of Sky
b. God of Dawn
c. The Prince of Trojan
d. The Prince of Rome

7. Who are referred as ‘they’ in the line given below?


‘And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d’
a. The Gods
b. Time
c. Nature
d. Eos

8. In the line – ‘Thy presence and thy portals’ who is referred to as ‘Thy’?
a. The Goddess of Dawn
b. Tithonus
c. God Apollo
d. God Zeus
9. Where is he now, who is described as ‘once a man’?
a. In the forest
b. In the sky
c. In the vapours
d. In the sea

10. What ‘amends’ does the speaker ask Eos to make?


a. To answer his questions
b. Not to weep at his condition
c. To take back her gift of immortality
d. To gift her immortal youth

Complete the following sentence giving reason.


1. The speaker says that ‘Me only cruel immortality consumes’ because
2. The speaker has defined his immortality as cruel because
3. The speaker says that he was ‘once a man’ because
4. The speaker says that Eos chose him as her beloved because
5. The speaker asks Eos to take back her gift of immortality because
6. The speaker wants to go back to Earth because
7. The speaker says that men should not pass beyond ‘goal of ordinance’ because
8. Tithonus implores Eos to let him go because
9. Tithonus says ‘And all I was in, ashes’ because
10. Tithonus says that it is not proper for a human being to go against the laws of nature because

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