Modern Poetry and Poetics

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

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.

A. Rupert Brooke
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Karl Shapiro
D. Hart Crane

A. Total freedom in choosing the subject
B. Striving for concentrated expression and imagery
C. Reliance on the language of common speech
D. Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms

A. This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
B. This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
C. This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
D. The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.

A. Objectivist poetry
B. Futurist poetry
C. Imagist poetry
D. Vorticist poetry

A. The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.
B. The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.
C. Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolini’s fascism.
D. All of these answers

A. Artifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context
B. The broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris
C. Old poetry
D. The failed attempt of modern poetry

A. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.
B. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.
C. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.
D. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

A. Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
B. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”
C. T.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land