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One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
A. The ideal of courtly love
B. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation
C. The alchemical concept of the philosopher’s stone
D. The Renaissance concept of humanism
WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?
A. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.
B. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.
C. Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
D. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.
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 was an important influence on Charles Reznikoff’s shift away from romantic rhetoric ?
A. His study of ancient history
B. His study of law
C. His study of medicine
D. His study of Sanskrit
What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?
A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living
Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pound’s poem “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” ?
A. It is primarily a narrative poem.
B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.
C. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.
D. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.
Complete the following sentence. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is a good example of High Modernism, because it_____________?
A. embraces the rhythms and diction of common man’s speech.
B. was written at the very beginning of the 20th century.
C. attempts to create a modernist high culture.
D. does not employ rhyme.
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore’s poem “A Grave ?”
A. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.
B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.
C. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.
D. Both A and C
According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?
A. Imagism
B. Classicism
C. British Romanticism
D. Vorticism
Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
A. Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.
B. Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.
C. Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.
D. Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.
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