1. What is an image?

2. Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” compares the English Channel to the Sea of Faith, with its “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar.” What important theme of the poem does this image reinforce?

3. Based on the following lines from William Blake’s “London,” what tone do his images convey: “In every cry of every man, / In every infant’s cry of fear / In every voice, in every ban / The mind-forged manacles I hear”?

4. Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” contains the image of a soldier being attacked by gas-shells, “the white eyes writhing in his face / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin.” The poem’s title comes from a Latin saying that means “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” How do the poem’s images of war relate to the title?

5. In John Keats’s “To Autumn,” the image of autumn “sitting careless on a granary floor / Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind” makes autumn seem like