Quiz terms

• Explain the following words or allusions that appeared in either Directive, For a Coming Extinction, or Advice to a Prophet
  • monolithic
  • serial
  • firkin
  • harness gall
  • grail
  • auk
  • unreckoning
  • torrent
  • Xanthus
  • "the dove's return"
  • dispell
  • "bronze annals"
• What is the god's name in Merwin's poem?
• what does Merwin mean by the "black garden and its court"?
• Each of these directives has an implied speaker and audience. For any of these poems, who is the audience, and what does the speaker want from them?
• In "Directive," what is the destination?
• Describe the rhyme pattern in "Advice to a Prophet."