Quiz

1. Who do you think the poem "Streets" is about? Why? Use evidence from the poem to explain your answer.

I think the poem Streets is about the author's father. From the first of the poem " a man leaves the world he lives and grows up, and in the second stanza there are figs. I think this is the evidence that shows she is writing about her father in this poem.

2. In "Streets," how many lines are there in stanza 4? How many sentences?
8lines, 5 sentences.

3. In stanza 3, there is an example of personification. Say what it is and explain why that is an example of personification.

"The sky which sews and sews, tirelessly sewing, drops her purple hem. " It is personification that Nye makes the sky into a needlewoman. The author uses "she" and sew as a action that human do. 

4. Identify two things being contrasted in the poem "Streets" and discuss why the author might wish to highlight that contrast. What is the message she sends in that contrast?
The author contrasts in the poem are about two kinds of people. One is the people who sleep completely at night and waking refreshed in day, and other one is the people who dreams all the time and live separatly in past and now. I think the author wants to show that in some way that her mother said about her father is a dreamer, always lives in the past and lost world.  She wants to show us that there is also a kind of person who is like his father, in the lost world all day long. 

5.How many stanzas are in the poem "Hidden" and how many sentences are there?
3 stanzas, 3 sentence.

6. In "Hidden," what do you think it means to "tuck the name of a loved one under your tongue for too long"? Explain your answer.
I think if people just hide the one they loved and without a word, it will become a pity.

7. Connect the poem "Hidden" to any other poem or poems we have read by Nye. How is "Hidden" similar to those others in theme or message? Explain.
Hidden tells us that we need to love, before we lost the chance to love. For other poems that Nye wrote, I think this is the similar theme.

8. In the interview, Nye stated that "the fuel that feeds her" is poetry, words, language. In this poem, though, it seems like the "fuel that feeds you" refers to something different. What do you think it refers to? Use evidence from the poem to explain your answer.
I think it refers to the people that they see you as their important part of their life but you don't see them important, or it's about something you don't really interested in, but in the future you find you really need it but you don't have chance.  No one sees what you used to have, but you will know what you lose after it gone.