What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

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What is the “double-bind” that African- American women poets encountered in the thirties and forties, according to Anthony Walton’s essay ?

A. Being overworked in menial jobs having to raise large families
B. Being a subordinated woman in a male dominated culture and a member of a suppressed minority race in the middle of a dominant white culture
C. Having little formal education with little access to publishers
D. Being ignored by a traditional poetry reading public because what they wrote about was the travails of subsistence living

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 ?

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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 ?

A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this

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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Which of the following best describes the types of imagery used in Louis Zukofsky’s poem, “A: Seventh Movement: There Are Different Techniques” ?

A. Historic and contemporary imagery
B. Kabalistic imagery
C. Nationalist imagery
D. Everyday imagery

The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

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The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?

A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
D. All of the above

Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?

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Which of the following best describes the reasons why World War I had a profound impact on modern poetry ?

A. The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europe’s cultural and political norms and values into question.
B. The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.
C. World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.
D. Both A and B

According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?

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According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?

A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house
B. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive
C. Wrapg yourself in the armor of anger and resentment
D. All of the above

Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology “May Sky” ?

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Violet Cristoforo was honored for collecting what kind of poetry in her anthology “May Sky” ?

A. Love sonnets from the Nazi death camps
B. American G.I. poetry from German prisoner of war camps
C. Jewish dissident poetry from the gulags in Siberia
D. Haiku poetry from the Japanese internment camps in the US

Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?

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Langston Hughes was among the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of the following is an accurate characterization of his experiences before he published his first book ?

A. He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
B. He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
C. He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
D. He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?

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Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?

A. Is it possible for Romantic themes in poetry to be meaningful after the Holocaust?
B. The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible?
C. Is there a relationship between poetry and rationality after the Holocaust?
D. Is there a meaningful relationship between World War I poetry and World War II poetry?