Question

The Purple Cow

Answer 1

In my opinion, the correct answer is D) Both use strict meter. Frost uses blankverse - unrhymed iambic pentameter, whereas Burgess uses iambic tetrameter (four iambic feet, as in the model da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM). Only Burgess uses humorous language.

Answer 2

Answer: A) Both use humorous language.

Explanation:

Purple Cow was part of The Burgess Nonsense Book Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess. This short poem published in 1895 uses nonsense verse, a sort of nonsense literature whimsical and humorous in tone.

In Mending Wall, Frost examines mischief and humor through the story of the narrator, a New England farmer who reaches his neighbor to rebuild the wall between their lands and however questions the purpose of a wall.