HELP PLS Ode to Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close
bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eavesrun;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And
still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they
think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
by John Keats

Directions: Choose the best answer.
1. What makes this poem an ode?
a) It shows grief for something lost or d e a d.
b) It is a formal poem of praise for someone or something.
c) It tells the story of an actual historical event.
d) It has fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.

2. The excerpt above is only one stanza of the ode – the other stanzas probably contain:
a) praise for autumn’s plentiful harvest and weather
b) a description of a death that took place during the fall of the year.
c) three lines each with five, seven, and five syllables.
d) complaints about autumn rain and frost.

3. To what does the poet refer in the phrase “their clammy cells"?
a) the petals of a flower
b) the honey cells of a beehive
c) the prison cells in the local jail
d) the biological cells in a hazelnut

4. List five things that you would praise about your favorite season.

can you provide the options?

i would pick a. i think this is more of a personal question though.

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.