Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?

   A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
   C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
   D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

   A. Boer War
   B. Second World War
   C. Korean War
   D. First World War

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

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

6. Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?

   A. His safe return home
   B. The defeat of the Germans
   C. His death and escape from suffering.
   D. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

7. 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

8. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility.” Who has defined poetry in these words ?

   A. Shelley
   B. Wordsworth
   C. Coleridge
   D. Matthew Arnold

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.