modern poetry and poetics MCQs – Page 2

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