A. Umberto Boccioni
B. Filippo Marinetti
C. Vladimir Mayakovsky
D. Aleksander Wat
Modern Poetry and Poetics
Modern Poetry and Poetics
A. Curiosity about the past
B. Deference to the past
C. Violation of the past
D. Paradoxically both B and C
A. “Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements”
B. “Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality”
C. “Continual transformation of the personality”
D. “Continual identification with the past”
A. It brought unprecedented destruction and loss of life, thereby putting into question the entirecultural and political legacy of Western civilization.
B. It was followed by Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule.
C. It was followed by the Cold War, which affected international politics throughout the world.
D. All of these answers
A. Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
B. Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
C. Goethe’s “Faust”
D. Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus”
A. “A meditation on contradictions”
B. “Overheard inner speech”
C. “Implicit dialogue with the future”
D. “Objective correlative”
A. “The Waste Land” is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.
B. “The Waste Land” confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.
C. “The Waste Land” is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.
D. “The Waste Land” focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.
A. Moore’s emotional and aesthetic attachment to England
B. Moore’s harsh critique of the carnage of World War I
C. Moore’s particular kind of combative American cultural nationalism
D. Moore’s interest in England’s civilizing mission in the world
A. It refers to a group of talented American émigré writers who lived in Europe after World War I.
B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.
C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.
D. Both A and B
A. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
B. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
C. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture
