What does Gertrude Stein’s term “the Lost Generation” designate ?

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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 ?

A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry. B. 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 a construct which they could manipulate. C. Individuals often felt lost and … In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and...

Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?

A. Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” B. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” C. T.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land...

Which of the following poets did NOTwrite about his experiences in World War II ?

A. Wilfred Owen B. Keith Douglas C. Randall Jarrell D. Karl Shapiro...

Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?

A. Is it possible for Romantic themes in poetry to be meaningful after the Holocaust? B. The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible? C. Is there a relationship between poetry and rationality after the Holocaust? D. Is there a meaningful relationship between World War I poetry and … Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?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....