A. The privileging of image over sound
B. The privileging of rhythm over meaning
C. The privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern
D. The privileging of colors over textures
Related Mcqs:
- Professor Hammer points out that T.S. Eliot used quotation as an important literary technique. The use of quotations, according to Professor Hammer, suggests which of the following attitudes to the past ?
A. Curiosity about the past
B. Deference to the past
C. Violation of the past
D. Paradoxically both B and C - 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 - 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. - In the first lecture of his Modern Poetry course, what argument does Professor Langdon Hammer make about the relationship between the modern city and poetic modernism ?
A. Most modernist poets lived in large cities; therefore, they often used urban imagery in their poetry.
B. Many languages and many forms of language were used in large cities; modernist poets often treated language not as something given and natural but as a construct which they could manipulate.
C. Individuals often felt lost and alienated in large cities, and among poets this resulted in turning inward and focusing only on the world of one’s own imagination.
D. All of these answers - Which of the following statements best expresses the difference between how visual images functioned in World War I poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. There were no significant differences in the functioning of visual images in these two types of poetry.
B. The Imagists relied on visual images to achieve clarity of expression, whereas World War I poets relied on visual images to subtly punctuate their often desperate political messages.
C. The Imagists valued brevity, which could be achieved with precise visual images, whereasWorldWar I poets preferred declamatory statements in their poems.
D. WorldWar I poets valued clarity of expression through visual images, whereas Imagists relied on complex expression through emotional visual images. - Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?
A. Stein experimented only with the sound qualities of language, whereas the Imagists focused on visual imagery.
B. Stein experimented with language that skirted the edges of sense, whereas the Imagists sought precision and clarity of expression.
C. Stein sought to combine classical poetic form with contemporary content, whereas the Imagists used traditional poetic subject matter but experimented with form.
D. Stein sought precision and clarity in her poems, whereas the Imagists sought experimental forms that enhanced visual imagery. - In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
A. Yeats’s poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeats’s life and in his poetry.
B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.
C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.
D. Both A and B - Professor Hammer argues that which of the following statements is true of Ezra Pound’s strong emphasis on poetic technique ?
A. It serves to effectively depersonalize Pound’s poems.
B. It serves the greater aim of conveying both intensity and immediacy in Pound’s poetry.
C. It is a paradoxical mixture of personal and impersonal elements.
D. It is a means of creating a dialogue between modernity and tradition. - Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pound’s interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?
A. endorsement of Marxism.
B. interest in ancient Rome.
C. anti-capitalism.
D. interest in Fourier’s utopian socialist thought. - According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?
A. Imagism
B. Classicism
C. British Romanticism
D. Vorticism
