Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?

   A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems.
   B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry.
   C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.
   D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition.

2. Professor Hammer argues that in Hart Crane’s poem “Legend,” Crane introduces himself to his readers. The poem opens with the lines: “As silent as a mirror is believed/ Realities plunge in silence by …/I am not ready for repentance;” according to Professor Hammer, Crane’s refusal to repent is an assertion of which of the following ?

   A. His political views
   B. His will to imaginative freedom
   C. His will to sexual freedom
   D. Both B and C

3. Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?

   A. Curiosity about the past
   B. Deference to the past
   C. Violation of the past
   D. Paradoxically both B and C

4. 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

5. Professor Hammer argues that Marianne Moore’s poem “England” suggests which of the following ?

   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

6. 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”

7. Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?

   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

8. Professor Hammer argues that in a certain sense Wallace Stevens’s poetry is always meta-poetry. What does this mean ?

   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.

9. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

   A. “The Sun Also Rises”
   B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
   C. “The Cantos”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

10. Ezra Pound’s “Canto I” opens with the following lines: “And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(…).” Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?

    A. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.
    B. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.
    C. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.
    D. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.