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Category: Modern Poetry and Poetics
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
Many critics see similarities between the tenets of Futurism and which of the following political philosophies ?
A. Marxism
B. Fascism
C. Democracy
D. Libertarianism
According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?
A. Patriotic imagery
B. Irony
C. Nihilism
D. Apocalyptic imagery
Which of the following best characterizes T.S. Eliot’s concept of the “objective correlative” ?
A. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its meaning.
B. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its rhetorical aim.
C. The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and its objective historical context.
D. The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.
Yeats’s “Song of Wandering Aengus” ends with the lines: “And pluck till time and times are done/The silver apples of the moon/The golden apples of the sun.” Which of the following is NOT a symbolic meaning of the apples ?
A. They symbolize the return to a lost paradise.
B. They point to alchemical elements, which in turn symbolize the body and the soul.
C. They symbolize the coming apocalypse.
D. They symbolize a fulfilled longing.
Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofsky’s poetry ?
A. American Romanticism
B. British Neo-Classicism
C. Kabalistic Judaism
D. Taoism
Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?
A. The privileging of image over sound
B. The privileging of rhythm over meaning
C. The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern
D. The privileging of colors over textures
Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?
A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.
What is the most notable characteristic of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station at the Metro” ?
A. The form of a villanelle
B. The use of synesthesia
C. The use of simile
D. The use of metaphor
Which of the following statements best characterizes the last two stanzas of Charles Baudelaire’s symbolist poem “Correspondences” ?
A. They describe the author’s experiences as a young child.
B. They use metaphors with subtle political connotations.
C. They ascribe colors and sounds to scents, relying on a device known as synesthesia.
D. They describe a scene in the countryside, which symbolizes the state of the author’s soul.
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