Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore’s poem “A Grave ?”

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“How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another.” ?

A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system B. Fear of the AIDs crisis C. Fear of global nuclear war D. Fear of the economic Great Depression...

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...

Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?

A. employs free verse. B. has an undertow of nihilism. C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.” D. was composed between WW I and WW II....