Modern Poetry and Poetics

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Modern Poetry and Poetics

Question 86 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the relationship between Italian Futurism and its historical context?
A
The Italian Futurists were fascinated by the age of electric and chemical power, and they praised the beauty of automobiles.
B
The Italian Futurists lived within a quickly changing social world, and they praised speed.
C
Marinetti and other Italian Futurists supported Mussolini's fascism.
D
All of these answers
Question 87 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following statements best characterizes Randall Jarrell's 1945 poem "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"?
A
The poem contrasts the image of a child in its mother's womb with cruel devaluation of human life in wartime.
B
The poem praises those technological achievements which protect human life in wartime.
C
The poem uses images of the apocalypse to criticize the cruelty of war.
D
The poem presents the war as a natural part of the perennial cycles of human history.
Question 88 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following statements best characterizes Georgia Douglass Johnson's poem "Black Woman"?
A
This poem focuses primarily on the different experiences of black and white women.
B
This poem describes the relationship between a black woman and her child.
C
This poem is a conversation between a black woman and a child who is not yet born.
D
The poem is a conversation between a black woman and her ancestors.
Question 89 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following traditions was particularly important in Hart Crane's modernist poetry?
A
French Classicism
B
British Romanticism
C
American Romanticism
D
German Romanticism
Question 90 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following descriptions does NOT pertain to the Imagists?
A
Total freedom in choosing the subject
B
Striving for concentrated expression and imagery
C
Reliance on the language of common speech
D
Creative reliance on conventional poetic forms
There are 90 questions to complete.