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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?
A. French Classicism
B. British Romanticism
C. American Romanticism
D. German Romanticism - 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 - 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 - 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. - 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” - 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______________?
A. endorsement of Marxism.
B. interest in ancient Rome.
C. anti-capitalism.
D. interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought. - 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. - According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?
A. Imagism
B. Classicism
C. British Romanticism
D. Vorticism
