Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

   A. its intellectual complexity
   B. its union of thought and passion
   C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
   D. A and B

2. What characteristics of seventeenth century Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?

   A. its intellectual complexity
   B. its union of thought and passion
   C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
   D. A and B

3. Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?

   A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
   B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
   C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
   D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental.

4. Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets ?

   A. Slavery
   B. American attitudes toward Jews and Israel
   C. Capitalism and social inequalities
   D. All of these answers

5. Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?

   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

6. 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

7. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with “what happens to a dream deferred” ?

   A. Alice Walker
   B. Etheridge Knight
   C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   D. Langston Hughes

8. What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

   A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
   B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
   C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
   D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

9. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?

   A. William Carlos Williams
   B. John Greenleaf Whittier
   C. George Herbert
   D. Robert Browning

10. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following characteristics did Langston Hughes share with modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Robert Frost ?

    A. Hughes was very conscious that he
    was an American poet, and this profoundly influenced his writing.
    B. Hughes wrote about the legacy of the American Civil War and its long-term cultural consequences.
    C. Hughes introduced new subject-matter and new language into poetry.
    D. Both A and C