What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro” ?

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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...

Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” opens with the line “Io venni in luogo d’ogni luce muto” [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works ?

A. Milton’s “Paradise Lost” B. Dante’s “Divine Comedy” C. Goethe’s “Faust” D. Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”...

What is the principal subject of Marianne Moore’s poem “An Octopus” ?

A. Death B. Mt. Rainier C. The ocean D. An octopus...

Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques” ?

A. Historic and contemporary imagery B. Kabalistic imagery C. Nationalist imagery D. Everyday imagery...

Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?

A. French Classicism B. British Romanticism C. American Romanticism D. German Romanticism...