This is ALL about Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in The Dooryard Bloom'd." Best answer gets 10 points!!

According to the speaker, what time of the year will he forever mourn?

summer
spring
winter
autumn
2. The "powerful western fallen star" symbolizes

the sun.
the moon.
Lincoln.
the dead soldiers
3. The hermit thrush sings

mournfully.
slowly.
cheerfully.
incessantly.
4. Section 6 of the poem is a good example of this rhetorical device.

allusion
symbolism
metaphor
repetition
5. In section 7 what does the speaker offer to the passing coffin?

his poem
a song
violets
sprig of lilacs
6. The theme of rebirth or new life is carried throughout the poem with images of

the night.
farming.
spring.
people working.
7. In section 14, "after the pertur'b winds and storms" is a reference to

the rain.
the Civil War.
the funeral.
the mourning process.
8. The italicized portion of the poem represents

the poet's eulogy for Lincoln.
the thrush's death song.
the poet's song.
death.
9. In section 15, the poet gives a vivid description of

the people crying as the president's coffin goes by.
the scene at the cemetery.
Gettysburg.
the thousands of soldiers who died in the Civil War.
10. Whitman says the soldiers no longer suffer, which means he views death as

soothing.
terrifying.
sinister.
appealing