What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

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Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?

A. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states. B. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings. C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities. D. A symbol is a description of past realities....

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 ?

A. They symbolize the return to a lost paradise. B. They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul. C. They symbolize the coming apocalypse. D. They symbolize a fulfilled longing....

Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

A. Curiosity about the past B. Deference to the past C. Violation of the past D. Paradoxically both B and C...

What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?

A. They both address the theme of death. B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure. C. They are both set in rural New England. D. All of these answers...

Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Correspondences” ?

A. They describe the author’s experiences as a young child. B. They use metaphors with subtle political connotations. C. They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia. D. They describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the author’s soul....