In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more_____________ but less __________than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.

Related Mcqs:

1. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more __________but less ___________ than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound?

   A. popular; reverenced
   B. brash; confident
   C. radical; inventive
   D. anxious; haunting

2. 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”

3. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?

   A. The Mahabharata
   B. Paradise Lost
   C. The Odyssey
   D. The Aeneid

4. How did W. H. Auden describe poetry ?

   A. An awful way to earn a living
   B. A game of knowledge
   C. The soul exposed
   D. An explosion of language

5. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

   A. FR Leavis
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. William Empson
   D. Mariella Frostrup

6. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new \mythical method\in place of the old \narrative method\and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about \making the modern world possible for art\ ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

7. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?

   A. regional dialect and political critique
   B. religious symbolism and society comedy
   C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
   D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

8. What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?

   A. regional dialect and political critique
   B. religious symbolism and society comedy
   C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
   D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

9. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new “mythical method” in place of the old “narrative method” and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about “making the modern world possible for art” ?

   A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
   B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
   C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
   D. James Joyce’s Ulysses

10. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?

    A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page
    B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery
    C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery
    D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility