Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?

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Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?

A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry. B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages. C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be … Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?Read More...

Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

A. H.D. B. Hart Crane C. William Carlos Williams D. T.S. Eliot...

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...

According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?

A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I? B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism? C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people? D. Given that … According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?Read More...

Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?

A. endorsement of Marxism. B. interest in ancient Rome. C. anti-capitalism. D. interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought....