UNIVERSITAS CENDERAWASIH

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Department of Language and Art
English Teaching Program

Poetry Middle Term Examination

Instructor: Dr. Wigati Yektiningtyas-Modouw
April 2023

Please Answer the Following Questions

1. From your experience in analyzing poems, how could you prove that poems are
produced from the context of i.e. a poet’s experience, social life, or cultural life?
Please explain and give examples (30 points)

2. What is the function of knowing and relating the poet’s life (from his or her biograhy)
in analyzing a certain poem? Please give examples (20 points)

3. Why poems can be said as the sources of life learning? Please explore your answer
with examples! (20 points)

4. Please read the following poem and try to analyze (30 points)

Pippa’s1 Song
(Robert Browning,1812-1889)

The year’s at the spring,

And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew pearled;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn:
God’s in His Heaven-
All’s right with the world!

Questions:
1. What is the poem about? explain
2. Mention the imagery and explain
3. Which line(s) in the poem attract(s) you much? Why?
4. What are the messages and reflection of the poem?

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Name: Ivory Anggie
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Pippa is a name of a little Italian peasant girl.
Answers:

1. Because poetry is usually written by someone’s experienced and expressed it by

writing their experience as poetry. The author uses poetry to explain their perspective
to other people. Examples, poetry can be used to improve a reader’s language skills
and to understand other people’s perspectives through writing.

2. Relating to poet’s life can lead to understanding other’s perspective and helps people
to learn more about the world and expands awareness of one another’s perspective.
Poetry can be a tool to help someone to understand the author’s feelings and
perspective through poetry and also to improve creativity.

3. Reading and writing poetry can help someone develop important language and
literacy skills like helping to improve in vocabulary. It helps someone to see the
possibilities of language in creating expression and meaning in poetry. It encourages
people’s creative thinking and to think outside the box and find creative ways to
express their thoughts and feelings by poetry.

4. (1) The poem is about God’s flawless morning and perfectness. Everything looks
beautiful because God is looking after all what God created.

(2) Kinesthetic: “The snail’s on the thorn:”, “The lark’s on the wing;”
Kinesthetic is where there is a sensation of movement the line above is the example
from the poetry.
Visual: “The hillside’s dew pearled;”, “The lark’s on the wing;”, “The snail’s on the
thorn:”
Visual is something we can see with our sight.

(3) 7th line. Because that line talks about how God’s staying in Heaven, controlling the
world God made perfectly, and makes everything flawless. In this line, it proves that
God control everything in the world.

(4) Talking about the natural world, it's harmony, and God proceeds as it is from
heaven.