H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong ?

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1. Ezra Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” reads: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/ Petals on a wet, black bough.” Which of the following statements best characterizes this poem ?

   A. It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
   B. It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
   C. It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
   D. It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.

2. In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?

   A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
   B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
   C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
   D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this

3. The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?

   A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
   B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
   C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
   D. Both A and B

4. 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

5. 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.

6. What are some of the surface similarities between Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out” and John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Telling the Bees” ?

   A. They both address the theme of death.
   B. Both use formal meter to present a narrative structure.
   C. They are both set in rural New England.
   D. All of these answers

7. Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?

   A. William Shakespeare
   B. Thomas Kyd
   C. John Dryden
   D. John Donne

8. Lauren Beth Signore’s essay, “Anne of Green Gables: The Transformation from Bildungsroman to Romantic Comedy”, argues that Anne of Green Gables is ultimately what kind of character ?

   A. A romantic awaiting true love
   B. A cynic awaiting the world’s destruction
   C. A delusional girl with no grasp on reality
   D. A young girl with a particularly dark Mindset

9. In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” the speaker refers to the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” of “The Sea of Faith.” This reference alludes to which of the following ?

   A. The Protestant Reformation
   B. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
   C. The decline of religion’s importance in the modern West
   D. His lover’s betrayal

10. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?

    A. Mending Wall
    B. Birches
    C. The Gift Outright
    D. Directive