1.
The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?
2.
One of the dominant themes in Wallace Stevens’s poem “Sunday Morning” consists of the juxtaposition of nature against which set of cultural symbols ?
3.
According to the literary critic, Paul Fussell, which of the following was a central trope of English poetry written during the Great War ?
4.
Which of the following best characterizes the contrast between Gertrude Stein’s poetry and Imagist poetry ?
5.
Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier” opens with the following lines: “If I should die, think only this of me:/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brooke’s poem as a whole ?
6.
According to Professor Hammer, Wallace Stevens’s understanding of the imagination has most in common with which of the following literary traditions ?
7.
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______________?
8.
What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?
9.
In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
10.
Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques” ?
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