Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?

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Which of the following best describes theidea of the symbol among French Symbolist poets ?

A. A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states. B. A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings. C. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities. D. A symbol is a description of past realities....

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

A. around 1900. B. in the early stages of World War I. C. in the late stages of World War I. D. in the 1920s....

Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

A. Curiosity about the past B. Deference to the past C. Violation of the past D. Paradoxically both B and C...

Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” ?

A. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature. B. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England. C. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity. D. It is a meditation on the poet’s personal experience of assimilation....

According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?

A. Hughes was very conscious that he was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing. B. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences. C. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry. D. Both A and C...