“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills” establishes what situation for the speaker?

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night” and “What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” establish what situation?

“Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!” What situation do these opening lines establish?

“That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive.” What situation is established?

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream!” What situation do the lines create?

“Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art” establishes what relationship between speaker and object?

In “The world is too much with us,” the cry “Great God! I'd rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn” turns the poem how?

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.” What does this ending do to the poem's earlier address to Death?

After Ozymandias' inscription boasts of power, “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck” turns the poem toward what effect?

In Milton's sonnet, the phrase “But Patience, to prevent / That murmur, soon replies” marks what turn?

After images of autumn, twilight, and dying fire, “This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong” turns Sonnet 73 how?

Sonnet 130 rejects flattering comparisons, then ends, “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.” What does the couplet do?

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter.” What does the paradox accomplish?

“Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimmed.” What does this figure do?

“If they be two, they are two so / As stiff twin compasses are two.” What does the conceit accomplish?

“My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow.” What does the hyperbole accomplish here?

“Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” What does the metaphor accomplish?

In “The invisible worm, / That flies in the night / In the howling storm,” what does the figure of the worm accomplish?

“I sing the Body electric” opens a poem by choosing “sing” rather than “describe.” What does that choice accomplish?

“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” What does the repeated infinitive structure accomplish?

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume.” What does the pronoun pattern accomplish?

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” What does the balanced structure accomplish?

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.” What does the opening movement accomplish?

“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree.” What does opening with place-name and decree accomplish?

“His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here.” Which reading do these lines NOT support?

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Which reading is NOT supported?

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed.” Which reading do these lines NOT support?

“The Sea of Faith / Was once, too, at the full” begins a comparison. Which reading do these lines NOT support?

“Fifty springs are little room, / About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.” Which reading do these lines NOT support?

“Yet if you should forget me for a while / And afterwards remember, do not grieve.” Which reading do these lines NOT support?