A. Demonstrate how the human imagination is fragile
B. Demonstrate how the human mind comprehends and perceives truth
C. Demonstrate the power of the French Revolution on the British Romantic consciousness
D. Demonstrate the intrinsic connection between imagination and death
Related Mcqs:
- Percy Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” presents nature as ________________?
A. A powerful, sublime force
B. A peaceful force
C. Depressing and miserable
D. Controlled by gods - Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc” can be best said to depict an encounter with _____________?
A. The sublime
B. Death
C. Childhood
D. A lost lover - Dr. Samuel Gladden, in his essay “Shelley’s Agenda Writ Large: Reconsidering Oedipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant ,” argues that Shelley’s “Oedipus- Tyrannus” is important because a_______________?
A. Shelley himself dismissed the poem
B. The poem was incomplete
C. Shelley recognizes the power of sexual transgression in it
D. Shelley writes about Byron’s sexuality in it - Paul O’Brien’s essay on Shelley suggests that Shelley was______________?
A. Not an atheist
B. In love with Lord Byron
C. Suicidal
D. Fiercely anti-war - Shelley’s “Ode to Psyche” is narrated by __________________?
A. Psyche
B. Cupid
C. The author of the poem
D. Shelley’s childhood self - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - Which of the following poets would be least likely to explore the meaning of beauty or imagination in a poem ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Which poet defines poetry as “the expression of the imagination” ?
A. William Hazlitt
B. William Wordsworth
C. Percy Shelley
D. Lord Byron - Coleridge considered imagination as______________?
A. Critical faculty
B. Modifying power
C. A psychological experience
D. A product of intellect - Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author ?
A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
D. Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
