A. reason can help man understand beauty.
B. civilization comes through beauty.
C. language shows humanity’s impulse towards order.
D. poetry has no effect on society.
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - Complete the following sentence. Shelley’s “Ozymandias” can be linked to his “Defence of Poetry” through its_______________?
A. rejection of traditional form.
B. portrayal of the power of art to speak truth.
C. rejection of art’s political role.
D. attempt to link poetry with music. - 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 - Which of the following statements would Percy Shelley, author of “A Defense of Poetry”, agree with ?
A. Art serves a particular worldly purpose.
B. Art’s supreme function is to entertain the public.
C. Artists are dangerous to social order.
D. Artists serve to construct the foundations of culture. - In “A Defense of Poetry,” Percy Shelley argues that humans have an impulse to ____________________?
A. Write stories
B. Resist understanding poetry
C. Reproduce rhythm and order
D. Strive to express love - Which of the following ideas does NOT come from Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime ?
A. The effect of the sublime on the physical body
B. The distinction between the sublime and beauty
C. An aesthetic explanation of the sublime through painting
D. The important role surprise plays in creating pleasure - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
A. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
B. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
D. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity. - Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery.
