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In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?
A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context
B. The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris
C. Old poetry
D. The failed attempt of modern poetry
Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between World War II poetry and Futurist poetry ?
A. The Futurists apotheosized technology, whereas World War II poets often focused on technology’s destructive powers.
B. The Futurists praised speed, whereas World War II poets often evoked images of nature to describe the human condition.
C. The Futurists privileged the part over the whole, whereas World War II poets did not deal with the problem of modernity and alienation.
D. The Futurists focused on advancements in technology and industry, whereas World War II poets ignored advancements in technology, especially in modern warfare.
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
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 villanelle.
Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare
According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?
A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?
B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?
According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house
B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive
C. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment
D. All of the above
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 World War II poetry?
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