A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.
Related Mcqs:
- Which period of John Keats as called “the most placid time in Keats’s life” by Cowden Clarke, a close friend of Keats ?
A. His visit to Lake District
B. Keats’ lodging in the attic above the
surgery at 7 Church Street
C. Keats stay in Italy
D. Keats’ travel to Alps - Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________?
A. The ability to sympathize with other
B. Say bad thing, about others
C. To empathize
D. None of these - Complete the following sentence. Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” is characteristically Romantic because of_____________?
A. its focus on his lost love.
B. its rejection of scientific progress.
C. its elaboration of the intersecting importance of nature and the imagination.
D. its development of elements from national folklore. - The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that______________?
A. all things, both great and small,will perish
B. man is mortal,art immortal
C. imagination is stronger than fact
D. history repeats - Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?
A. “Two Gentlemen of Verona”
B. “The Winter’s Tale”
C. “The Tempest”
D. “Faustus” - Complete the following sentence. Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Browning’s dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?
A. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
B. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
C. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
D. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire. - Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language. - Complete the following sentence. The politics of Radcliffe’s medieval settings______________?
A. indicates her longing for the older aristocracy.
B. suggests her commitment to the Catholic Church.
C. is at odds with her explicit socialist politics.
D. implies that contemporary British society has overcome the institutions leading to the horrors its characters experience. - Complete the following sentence. Unlike many Enlightenment thinkers, Adam Smith and Rousseau_____________?
A. traveled to America.
B. believed in God.
C. emphasized the importance of human emotions as guiding behavior.
D. rejected Newton’s view of the universe. - Complete the following sentence. The Romantic movement is least closely related to______________?
A. folklore.
B. nationalism.
C. parody.
D. exoticism
