Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?

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Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?

A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems. B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry. C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements. D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition....

Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?

A. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic. B. The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality. C. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers. D. This poem is structured like a … Which of the following statements best characterizes the formal qualities of Langston Hughes’s poem “Life is Fine” ?Read More...

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 literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Stein’s poem “New” ?

A. Assonance and word repetition B. Simile C. Metaphor and allusion D. Circumlocution...

Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?

A. Marxism B. Fascism C. Democracy D. Libertarianism...