The following question has two parts. First, answer part a. Then, answer part b. Part a.
Which best describes the speaker’s viewpoint.

He mourns how fast time passes.
The passage of time is not important
He is not sad about the passage of time
Crying over how fast time flies is worthwhile

Part b
Which two lines best support the answer to part A?

I sigh not over vanished years,
But watch the years that hasten by.
As idly might I weep, at noon,
To see the blush of morning gone
The future! Cruel were the power
Whose doom would tear from my heart,
And from her frown shall shrink afraid
The crowned oppressors of the globe.


2. Read this stanza from the poem.
Look, how they come-- a mingled crowd
Of bright and dark, but rapid days;
Beneath them, like a summer cloud,
The wide world changes as I gaze.
Which sentence best explains what the simile in this stanza shows about the theme of the poem?
The world changes quickly and for the better.
The world changes slowly and for the better.
The world does not change quickly enough.
The world changes too quickly and for the worse.


3. Read the lines from the poem and the directions that follow.
Could I give up hopes that glow
In prospect like Elysian isles;

In Greek mythology, heroes lived the afterlife in the paradise of the elysian isles. Select the sentence that best explains why the poet uses this allusion.

He considers himself a hero.
He hopes that he will go to a paradise when he dies.
He is giving up the hope of going to a paradise when he dies.
He is comparing his hopes to the prospect of paradise in the afterlife

4. Read this stanza from the poem.
And then, should no dishonor lie
Upon my head, when I am gray,
Love yet shall watch my fading eye,
And smooth the path of my decay.


Using details from the poem, write a word that has the denotation as decay on the line provided.

5. What kind of figurative language is used in these lines? Use details from the poem to support your answer.
Then haste thee, time tis kindness all
Thou fliest and bear’st away our woes.

Write your answer on the lines provided.

Compare and contrast the structures of “memories” and “lapse of time.” analyze how the different structure of each poem contributes to its meaning and style.