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


aLangston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”


bEzra Pound’s “Cantos”


cT.S. Eliot’s “A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”


d T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land



What was the primary significance of “The Book of American Negro Poetry” (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?


aIt established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.


bIt inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.


cIt presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.


dIt provided literary criticism on African American poetry.



In Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man on the Dump,” one can say that the trash symbolizes which of the following ?


aArtifacts from foreign cultures which do not fit into the American cultural context


bThe broken dreams of the American émigré community in Paris


cOld poetry


dThe failed attempt of modern poetry


View Answer Old poetry

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context ?


aThe Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.


bThe Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.


cMarinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolini’s fascism.


dAll of these answers


View Answer All of these answers

H.D.’s poem “Oread” reads: “WHIRL up, sea-/Whirl your pointed pines./Splash your great pines/On our rocks./Hurl your green over us-/Cover us with your pools of fir.” To which of the following categories does this poem belong


a Objectivist poetry


bFuturist poetry


cImagist poetry


dVorticist poetry


View Answer Imagist poetry

Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson’s poem “Black Woman” ?


aThis poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.


bThis poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.


cThis poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.


dThe poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.



Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists ?


a Total freedom in choosing the subject


bStriving for concentrated expression and imagery


c Reliance on the language of common speech


dCreative reliance on conventional poetic forms



Which of the following poets wrote about World War II ?


a Rupert Brooke


bRudyard Kipling


cKarl Shapiro


dHart Crane


View Answer Karl Shapiro

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?


aGeorgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.


bUnlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.


cUnlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.


dWorld War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.



Which of the following does Professor Hammer identify as one of the most important goals of Imagist poetry ?


aThe privileging of image over sound


bThe privileging of rhythm over meaning


cThe privileging of individual detail over the larger pattern


dThe privileging of colors over textures



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