Selection Quizzes (English)



1.	Why might Cummings have chosen to describe loneliness in this way?
	A.	The poet himself was a lonely man.
	B.	The poet wants the structure of the poem to reinforce the idea of loneliness.
	C.	The poet wants to show loneliness in an ironic light.
	D.	The poet is simply experimenting with form and the look of a poem.

2.	Why might Cummings have decided to break the words in the poem into so many pieces?
	A.	He chooses to isolate parts of the words to hint at the isolation that a lonely person feels.
	B.	The isolated parts of words are meant to represent the separate pieces of the poet's soul.
	C.	The poet wants the poem to be difficult to read.
	D.	Cummings wants the reader to laugh upon trying to read the poem.

3.	What does the message of the poem seem to be?
	A.	Loneliness causes the self to break apart and fall like a brittle leaf.
	B.	Every time a leaf falls, another poor soul feels lonely.
	C.	In order to understand oneself, one must understand nature.
	D.	Loneliness is like a single leaf falling from a tree, its only life-giving connection in the world.

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