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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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. - Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott’s poem“Becune Point” ?
A. Nature
B. Christianity
C. Pastoral landscapes
D. World War II - One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
A. The ideal of courtly love
B. Elements of the Christian narrative of salvation
C. The alchemical concept of the philosopher’s stone
D. The Renaissance concept of humanism - Sassoon and Brooke wrote what kind of poetry ?
A. Light verse
B. Romantic
C. Political satire
D. War poems - 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. - 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 ?
A. Objectivist poetry
B. Futurist poetry
C. Imagist poetry
D. Vorticist poetry - 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 - Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
A. women’s rights and suffrage
B. child labor
C. chartism
D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians - Elizabeth Barrett’s poem The Cry of the Children is concerned with which major issue attendant on the Time of Troubles during the 1830s and 1840s ?
A. women’s rights and suffrage
B. child labor
C. Chartism
D. the prudishness and old-fashioned ideals of her fellow Victorians
