Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Crane’s modernist poetry ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. Professor Hammer argues that Hart Crane’s poem “Voyages” is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?

   A. Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
   B. Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”
   C. T.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   D. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land

3. 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

4. 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.

5. Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofsky’s poetry ?

   A. American Romanticism
   B. British Neo-Classicism
   C. Kabalistic Judaism
   D. Taoism

6. 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

7. Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?

   A. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets
   B. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion
   C. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable
   D. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

8. Complete the following sentence. Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” is illustrative of modernist poetry, because it________________?

   A. employs free verse.
   B. has an undertow of nihilism.
   C. is chauvinistic about British “exceptionalism.”
   D. was composed between WW I and WW II.

9. 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

10. What characteristics of seventeenth century 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