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In analyzing T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following ?
A. “A meditation on contradictions”
B. “Overheard inner speech”
C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
D. “Objective correlative”
What is the principal subject of Marianne Moore’s poem “An Octopus” ?
A. Death
B. Mt. Rainier
C. The ocean
D. An octopus
Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images.
Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. John Greenleaf Whittier
C. George Herbert
D. Robert Browning
Which of the following statements best characterizes Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” ?
A. It is a meditation on the alienation of the modern person from nature.
B. It is a meditation on the cultural isolation of African Americans in New England.
C. It is a meditation on the communal and historical aspects of individual identity.
D. It is a meditation on the poet’s personal experience of assimilation.
In his essay “The Roots of Modernism,” Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.
B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.
C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.
D. Both A and C
Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?
A. “Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images”
B. “Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images”
C. “Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images”
D. “Inclusion of natural objects as symbols”
Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?
A. endorsement of Marxism.
B. interest in ancient Rome.
C. anti-capitalism.
D. interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought.
Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
A. Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris émigré community.
B. Stein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.
C. Stein was a proponent of low modernism.
D. Stein was an opponent of vanguard trends.
Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot
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