A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B
Related Mcqs:
- What characteristics of seventeenthcentury Metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics ?
A. its intellectual complexity
B. its union of thought and passion
C. its uncompromising engagement with politics
D. A and B - John Donne is, in some sense, the originator of metaphysical poetry. But who is most closely associated with the “founding” of neoclassical poetry ?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Alexander Pope
C. Ben Jonson
D. George Herbert - Generally speaking, African-American themes were very rare in white modernist poetry. Which of the following white poets attempted to evoke elements of black experience in his or her poems ?
A. H.D.
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. T.S. Eliot - 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 - Which of the following descriptors does NOT apply to the features of French Symbolist poetry that influenced other modernist poetry ?
A. French Symbolist poetry is full of exaggerated metaphors.
B. French Symbolist poetry has narrative clarity.
C. French Symbolist poetry is shocking.
D. French Symbolist poetry is formally experimental. - ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by________________?
A. Arnold
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Shelley
D. None of these - Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Donne
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Robert Browning - Which poet was first who used metaphysical poetry among his contemporaries ?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. John Milton
C. John Donne
D. Sir Philip Sidney - Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. John Greenleaf Whittier
C. George Herbert
D. Robert Browning - In the late seventeenth century, a \battle of the books\erupted between which two groups ?
A. abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
B. round-earthers and flat-earthers
C. the Welsh and the Scots
D. champions of ancient and modern learning
