Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. How old was Rupert Brooke at the time of his death ?

   A. 24
   B. 31
   C. 21
   D. 28

3. Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” ?

   A. Both poems praise Britain’s military power and its imperial ambitions.
   B. Both poems describe Britain’s civilizing mission in the world.
   C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.
   D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

4. Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?

   A. Light verse
   B. Romantic
   C. Political satire
   D. War poems

5. The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?

   A. FR Leavis
   B. Harold Bloom
   C. William Empson
   D. Mariella Frostrup

6. He wrote both religious and secular poetry. One of his poems urged virgins to make the most of their time ?

   A. Ben Jonson
   B. Alexander Pope
   C. Robert Herrick
   D. John Dryden

7. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

8. In “Of Poetry in General,”William Hazlitt contends that good poetry comes from ____________?

   A. The intellect
   B. The author’s personal pain
   C. Strong feeling
   D. Rewriting Homer

9. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

   A. William Blake
   B. Alfred Lord Tennyson
   C. Samuel Johnson
   D. William Wordsworth

10. 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.