Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Shine, Perishing Republic? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The initial description of America "heavily thickening to empire" reflects the poem's theme of
power
change
man and the natural world
versions of reality
Q. The flower fading to make fruit that then makes earth deals with the theme of
power
change
mortality
suffering
Q. The line that meteors are not needed less than mountains reflects the speaker's ideas related to
man and the natural world
power
truth
transformation
Q. When the speaker says that corruption is not compulsory, he's really expanding on the poem's theme of
transformation
power
isolation
masculinity
Q. When the mountains are the only things left, the speaker points to the importance of which theme?
power
mortality
fate
man and the natural world