A. Their conservative poetics
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality
C. Their radical politics
D. Their nationalistic tone
Related Mcqs:
- Identify the work by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces..” ?
A. Chastelard
B. A Song of Italy
C. Atalanta in Calydon
D. Songs before Sunrise - What was common amongst D.G Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?
A. They all belonged to the Oxford Movement
B. They were all painters
C. They were all Victorian Novelists
D. They all belonged to the Pre- Raphaelite School - Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
A. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England’s economy.
B. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
C. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
D. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience. - Which of the following poems is considered to be the most neglected of Shakespeare’s ?
A. “A Lover’s Complaint”
B. “Venus and Adonis”
C. “The Phoenix and Turtle”
D. “The Rape of Lucrece” - For his poems, Shakespeare is thought to have drawn upon all of the following for influence and ideas EXCEPT ?
A. Greek mythology
B. European history
C. Early scientific studies
D. The works of earlier poets - Which of the following poems was authored by Shakespeare ?
A. “Tintern Abbey”
B. “A Lover’s Complaint”
C. “El Cid”
D. “The Wasteland” - Which of the following authors would be most likely to use the supernatural in his poems ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Percy Shelley
D. William Blake? - Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
A. Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode
B. Blake’s “Prophetic Books”
C. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D. all but C - Ezra Pound’s “Cantos” may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pound’s poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
A. The Mahabharata
B. Paradise Lost
C. The Odyssey
D. The Aeneid - Complete the following sentence. Poetic images which idealize war and ascribe spiritual qualities to battle can be found primarily in English poems written_______________?
A. around 1900.
B. in the early stages of World War I.
C. in the late stages of World War I.
D. in the 1920s.
