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MCQs: Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?
MCQs 1: Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
The image of a sentinel
The image of the sun reflected on the sea
The image of a quest for knowledge
The image of satiny embers
MCQs 2: Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?
Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.
MCQs 3: Which of the following writers wrote about trench warfare during the Great War ?
MCQs 4: In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?
Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as
Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s o
All of these answers
MCQs 5: Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” ?
It is primarily a narrative poem.
It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.
It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.
Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.
MCQs 6: According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
It is the racial segregation in the South.
It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans.
MCQs 7: Which of the following statements best characterizes the form of Claude McKay’s poem “The Harlem Dancer” ?
It is an English sonnet.
It is an Italian sonnet.
It is a Spenserian sonnet.
It is a free verse poem.
MCQs 8: Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.
MCQs 9: What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro” ?
MCQs 10: Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
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