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 ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?

   A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers’ deaths on the battlefield.
   B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain’s imperial power.
   C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
   D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

6. 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

7. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land” ?

   A. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?
   B. Given the diversity of the world’s poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?
   C. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?
   D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared “waste land”?

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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”