B. was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.

C. embraces the rhythms and diction of common mans speech.

D. does not employ rhyme.

A. Curiosity about the past

B. Deference to the past

C. Violation of the past

B. Ezra Pounds Cantos

C. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

D. T.S. Eliots A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.

C. It is a widespread urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures among white Americans.

D. It is the racial segregation in the South.

A. Brookes inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize

B. distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.

C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.

D. These lines suggest the authors anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.

A. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.

C. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.

D. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.

A. Inclusion of natural objects as symbols

B. Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images

D. Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images

B. All of these answers

C. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.

D. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of ones own imagination.

A. Rupert Brooke

B. Hart Crane

D. Rudyard Kipling

A. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.

C. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.

D. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.

A. is chauvinistic about British exceptionalism.

B. employs free verse.

C. was composed between WW I and WW II.

A. Hughes uses a universal speaker for an exploration of a profound racial divide between blacks and whites.

B. The poem is an indictment of racial prejudice in Harlem.

C. The poem is an analytical exploration of racial differences in the United States.

A. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd), which is sustained throughout the poem.

C. It is primarily a narrative poem.

D. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.

A. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.

B. This poem is structured like a villanelle.

D. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.

A. Hughes was very conscious that he

B. an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.

C. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.

D. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.

A. Stevenss poetry always addresses several different audiences.

B. Stevenss poetry highlights an objective voice.

C. Stevenss poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.

B. Imagism

C. Vorticism

D. Classicism

B. Keith Douglas

C. Randall Jarrell

D. Karl Shapiro

A. Yeatss poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeatss life and in his poetry.

B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.

C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.

A. William Carlos Williams

B. H.D.

C. T.S. Eliot

A. They describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the authors soul.

B. They use metaphors with subtle political connotations.

D. They describe the authors experiences as a young child.

A. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

C. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families

D. Having little formal education with little access to publishers

A. The use of simile

B. The form of a villanelle

C. The use of synesthesia

A. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowells poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.

B. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this

C. Yes, Lowells detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.

A. It is a Spenserian sonnet.

B. It is an Italian sonnet.

D. It is a free verse poem.

A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New Yorks complexity and diversity.

C. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.

D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

A. Salvador Dali

B. Horace Greeley

D. Rupert Brooke

A. The image of a sentinel

C. The image of a quest for knowledge

D. The image of satiny embers

A. It is primarily a narrative poem.

B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.

C. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.

B. Umberto Boccioni

C. Vladimir Mayakovsky

D. Aleksander Wat

A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

B. The Waste Land is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.

C. The Waste Land is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.

D. The Waste Land focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.

A. American attitudes toward Jews and Israel

B. Slavery

C. Capitalism and social inequalities

A. Ivy League educated

B. Active pacifist during both world wars

C. Popularized the use of free verse

A. George Herbert

B. John Greenleaf Whittier

D. Robert Browning

A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system

C. Fear of the AIDs crisis

D. Fear of the economic Great Depression

A. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.

B. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

C. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.

B. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets

C. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion

D. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable

B. Given the diversity of the worlds poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?

C. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?

D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared waste land?

B. British Neo-Classicism

C. Taoism

D. American Romanticism

A. The Aeneid

C. The Mahabharata

D. Paradise Lost

B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britains imperial power.

C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.

D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

A. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.

B. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.

D. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.

B. Continual transformation of the personality

C. Continual identification with the past

D. Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements

A. Goethes Faust

B. Miltons Paradise Lost

C. Dantes Divine Comedy

A. Hitlers invasion of Poland in 1939

C. World War I

D. The Russian Civil War

B. Siegfried Sassoon

C. Isaac Rosenberg

D. Wilfred Owen

A. His study of ancient history

C. His study of medicine

D. His study of Sanskrit

B. Moores harsh critique of the carnage of World War I

C. Moores emotional and aesthetic attachment to England

D. Moores interest in Englands civilizing mission in the world

A. Metaphor and allusion

B. Circumlocution

D. Simile