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.
Related Mcqs:
- William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” explores ________________?
A. The loss of childhood and discovery of the adult world
B. The fall of Satan
C. The life of Blake
D. The history of London - William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?
A. Love
B. childhood
C. Inexperience
D. Innocence - 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 - Which of the following Romantic poets would have been most likely to write a poem celebrating the innocence of childhood ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. William Wordsworth - Which of the following statements best characterizes American World War II poems ?
A. They tend to use traditional rhyme schemes and rhythms, and they avoid free verse.
B. They tend to use metaphors and avoid direct descriptive statements.
C. They tend to use classical imagery while rejecting romantic tropes.
D. They tend to be narrative and confront the reader with stark wartime realities. - The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
A. Lacking in freshness and originality
B. Saddened
C. Double meaning
D. Blue-eyed - William Blake’s “Little Black Boy” advocates for __________________?
A. The abolition of slavery
B. The equality of all people
C. The innate brilliance of children
D. The beauty of common language - The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
A. Narration
B. History
C. Persuasion
D. Oral Tradition - The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - Swinburne’s poems such as “Hermaphroditus” are best known for which of the following ?
A. Their conservative poetics
B. Their frank depiction of sexuality
C. Their radical politics
D. Their nationalistic tone
