A. The diction is much more polysyllabic than monosyllabic.
B. The use of alternating end rhymes and word repetitions enhance the music of the poem and along with its occasional dissonance give it an improvisational jazz-like quality.
C. It is written in Standard American English for middle-class readers.
D. This poem is structured like a villanelle.
Modern Poetry and Poetics
Modern Poetry and Poetics
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot
A. around 1900.
B. in the early stages of World War I.
C. in the late stages of World War I.
D. in the 1920s.
A. The image of a sentinel
B. The image of the sun reflected on the sea
C. The image of a quest for knowledge
D. The image of satiny embers
A. Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.
B. Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.
C. Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.
D. Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.
A. Siegfried Sassoon
B. Isaac Rosenberg
C. Wilfred Owen
D. All of these answers
A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
D. All of these answers
A. It is primarily a narrative poem.
B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.
C. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.
D. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.
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.
A. It is an English sonnet.
B. It is an Italian sonnet.
C. It is a Spenserian sonnet.
D. It is a free verse poem.
