Respond: Do you empathize with the poet's "astonishment" on returning to his birthplace? Explain.

(a) Apply: Identify two examples of indifference to suffering today:
(b) Relate: What might Auden say about them?

(a) Recollect: In the end, who shares the individual being's destiny? (b) Conclude: How would you sump up the poet's attitudes toward life and death?

Answer the items below:

(a) According to the "still voice" introduced in the particular line what will happen to the individual being?

(b) In what ways do the images in these particular lines reinforce this idea?

Support: Which of these statements best captures the sense of the poem?
(a) A person's suffering belongs to him or her in a way that not even pity can change. (b) Suffering gives meaning to innocent everyday life and vice versa. Support your chosce.\

(a) Analyze: Look at Brueghel's The Fall of loarus (p. $1060$). What does the artist imply by showing only learus' legs in the right corner of the picture?
(b) Infer: What does Brueghel, an Old Master, realize about the place of suffering in the world?

(a) Recollect: Identify the different languages Nature speaks to those who love her. (b) Interpret: How does the speaker find comfort in Nature's "various language"?

(a) Infer. What is the relation of the children to the important events near them?
(b) Connect: Is the attitude of the ploughman to lcarus' fall similar? Explain.

(a) Recall: What disaster do the "ploughman" and the "ship" witness?
(b) Compare and Contrast: How do their responses contrast with the gravity of the event?

(a) Recall: Who are the "Old Masters"?
(b) Interpret: What general device used by the Old Masters does the speaker discuss?

Evaluate: Is Auden's style suited to an elegy, a poem of mourning? Explain.

Analyze: In phrases such as "ranches of isolation," Auden combines the abstract and the specific. Identify three other images that combine abstract ideas and concrete details.

Summarize: Summarize the view of poetry presented in the poem.

(a) Interpret Considering the kind of fame great past poets enjoy, why does the speaker say that time -Worships language and forgives / Everyone by whom it lives"?
(b) Interpret: What kind of poetry might poets produce who "Sing of human unsuccess/In a rapture of distress; ..."?