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1. Poe was culturally informed, rather than isolated, reclusive, and warped. How does the narrative/cyclical style in "The Raven" show Poe's intelligence and attempt to connect with humanity?

2. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Journey of the Magi," although literature, use ideas/point-of-views from other disciplines. How do these poems represent multiple disciplines in use of phrase and definition of ideas?

3. What is Prufrock agonizing over in the poem? What do the lines "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" mean?

4. What is the journey of the magi? What does the last stanza mean in Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"?

5. Billy Collins was asked by Bigthink editors the following question and he responded:

What are the recurring themes in your poetry?
Billy Collins: I mean, the theme of poetry is death. The theme of literature is essentially misery leading to death. They asked Freud, "What is the aim of life?" Death is what he says. So that's the subject of poetry. Mortality is the overarching subject of poetry. I mean some would say love is the subject of poetry, but it's usually love in the context of death. Like the great poem by Andrew Marvell to his coy mistress, and the reason they should make love is because they're not going to live forever. And the oldest theme in poetry is "carpe diem". It's seize the day. And the reason you want to "carpe" your "diems" is that you don't have that many "diems" given to you! So this urgency that floods into your life when you see it through this lens of death . . . I mean, that seems to be the basic theme of poetry. And my poetry is no different.

Do you see his response reflected in his poetry? How or why/ how or why not?

6. How does Baca describe images of his culture? List three lines you found the most visual.