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 ?

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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...

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...

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...

In his essay “The Symbolism of Poetry,” William Butler Yeats argues that which of the following is the purpose of rhythm ?

A. To “amplify and clarify the indistinct emotions created by metaphorical symbols” B. To “prolong the moment of contemplation” C. To “counteract the forces of dispersal inherent in metaphorical language” D. To “make poetry new”...

One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?

A. The ideal of courtly love B. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation C. The alchemical concept of the philosopher’s stone D. The Renaissance concept of humanism...