Modern Poetry and Poetics

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Modern Poetry and Poetics

Question 66 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In analyzing T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " Professor Hammer argues that Eliot creates something that might be called which of the following?
A
"A meditation on contradictions"
B
Overheard inner speech
C
"Implicit dialogue with the future"
D
"Objective correlative"
Question 67 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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
Question 68 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Ezra Pound's "Canto XIV" opens with the line "Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto" [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works?
A
Milton's "Paradise Lost"
B
Dante's "Divine Comedy"
C
Goethe's "Faust"
D
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus"
Question 69 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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?
A
These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers' deaths on the battlefield.
B
These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britain's imperial power.
C
These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.
D
These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.
Question 70 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why was World War II a defining event in the history of the 20th century?
A
It brought unprecedented destruction and loss of life, thereby putting into question the entire cultural and political legacy of Western civilization.
B
It was followed by Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and by the entrenchment of the Soviet totalitarian system of rule.
C
It was followed by the Cold War, which affected international politics throughout the world.
D
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