Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?

A. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers. B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition. C. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the … Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?Read More...

Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?

A. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic. B. The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality. C. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers. D. This poem is structured like a … Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?Read More...

In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?

A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context B. The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris C. Old poetry D. The failed attempt of modern poetry...

Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets ?

A. Slavery B. American attitudes toward Jews and Israel C. Capitalism and social inequalities D. All of these answers...

Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield. B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power. C. These lines and … Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign...