Ezra Pound was born in ____.
(a) Boston, Massachusettes
(b) Philadephia, Pennsylvania
(c) Davenport, Iowa
(d) Hailey, Idaho
Question’s Answer: Hailey, Idaho
Name the friends and literary associates of Ezra Pound
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Edwardo Arbington Robinson
(c) William Carlos Williams,Marianne Moore and Hilda Doolittle
(d) T.S. Eliot
Question’s Answer: William Carlos Williams,Marianne Moore and Hilda Doolittle
Who had an impact on Pound’s literary principles?
(a) American poets
(b) Greek poets and philosophers
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) T.E. Hulme
Question’s Answer: T.E. Hulme
Pound moved to Europe for what reason after crossing the Atlantic?
(a) He was drawn by his roots and the literary tradition
(b) He was looking for his ancestory
(c) The ancient nations with their heritage pulled him
(d) He felt comfortable in Europe
Question’s Answer: He was drawn by his roots and the literary tradition
Ezra Pound was well versed in
(a) Greek literature
(b) Ancient Indian scriptures
(c) Anglo-Saxon, Italian and Chinese literatures
(d) Egyptian literature
Question’s Answer: Anglo-Saxon, Italian and Chinese literatures
What elements did Ezra Pound take seriously and incorporate into his poetry?
(a) Quality of sound and spoken quality of poetry
(b) Learned and ancient
(c) Metaphoric
(d) Freshness and vitality
Question’s Answer: Quality of sound and spoken quality of poetry
- Pound has translated extensively from
(a) Italian
(b) French
(c) Greek
(d) Chinese
Question’s Answer: French
What elements make Ezra Pounds’s “Cantos” complex?
(a) The allusions
(b) The far-reaching allusions, and use of the pattern of associations
(c) A complex matter needs complex style
(d) Complexity in structure
Question’s Answer: The far-reaching allusions, and use of the pattern of associations
Who made the remark that it is preferable to present an image once in a lifetime than to create numerous works?
(a) Archibald Macleish
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) H.D. Thoreau
(d) Ezra Pound
Question’s Answer: Ezra Pound
What is the first poem that made Ezra Pound famous?
(a) “A Virginal”
(b) “Ballad of the Goodly Fere?
(c) “Cantos”
(d) “A Pact”
Question’s Answer: “Ballad of the Goodly Fere?
Who is the good companion in this ballad?
(a) Simon, the disciple
(b) The poet of Christ
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) The Americans
Question’s Answer: Jesus Christ
The “goodly Fere” was whose friend?
(a) Of man in desperation
(b) Of man,wind and sea
(c) Mankind Of man
(d) The whole world
Question’s Answer: Of man,wind and sea
Which of the following best describes the “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” by Pound?
(a) Richness of imagery
(b) Extensive sources and references
(c) Combination of variety of elements into a great poem
(d) Variety and profundity, sustained perfection and powerful execution
Question’s Answer: Variety and profundity, sustained perfection and powerful execution
What secures Edgar Lee Master’s position in American poetry?
(a) Simplicity
(b) Dramatic monologue
(c) A new diction
(d) Short poems
Question’s Answer: Dramatic monologue
Edgar Lee Masters, became famous because of
(a) Across Spoon River
(b) The Tide of Time
(c) The New Spoon River
(d) Spoon River Anthology
Question’s Answer: Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology is a significant work of Masters in he writes about
(a) Lives of the dead
(b) Free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in Midwestern cemetry
(c) Simplicity is the characteristic value of the poem
(d) direct and revealing
Question’s Answer: Free-verse epitaphs revealing the secret lives of the persons buried in Midwestern cemetry
Who is author of these lines?
“But through a long sickness/Coughing myself to death! I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus”
(a) E.A. Robinson
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Shakespare
(d) Edgar Lee Masters
Question’s Answer: Edgar Lee Masters
When Carl Sandburg was born?
(a) 1991
(b) 1878
(c) 1900
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1878
What is the ancestory of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Polish
(b) German
(c) Swedish immigrants
(d) Holland
Question’s Answer: Swedish immigrants
What is the language of Carl Sandburg?
(a) Swedish
(b) Swedish in childhood learnt English later
(c) German
(d) Polish
Question’s Answer: Swedish in childhood learnt English later
“Chicago” is written by ______.
(a) “Edgar Lee Masters”
(b) “Wallace Stevens”
(c) “Carl Sandburg”
(d) Archibald Maclcish
Question’s Answer: “Carl Sandburg”
What made “Chicago” so well-known?
(a) An ode in the free verse to celebrate the spirit of the city
(b) A profane city
(c) An ode to wicked and brutal city with lots of grit
(d) The second largest city with its weakness and strength
Question’s Answer: An ode in the free verse to celebrate the spirit of the city
What are the new features in “Chicago”?
(a) New verse pattern
(b) Close to the mind and heart of the Americans
(c) A direct impact because of the theme
(d) Language of the people and rhythm of the Midwest speech
Question’s Answer: Language of the people and rhythm of the Midwest speech
What were the achievements of Carl Sandburg in his poetry, specially “Chicago”?
(a) A sense of immediacy, hopes and fears of the people
(b) People’s poem
(c) Depict’s the life and songs of the people
(d) Voice of the people
Question’s Answer: A sense of immediacy, hopes and fears of the people
What qualities attracted Americans towards Sandburg’s poetry?
(a) Poetic insight
(b) Breaking from the tradition and evolving his own technique
(c) The new poetic technique
(d) Phrasing
Question’s Answer: Breaking from the tradition and evolving his own technique
Which group of poets are called ‘Chicago poets?
(a) Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay,Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe
(b) Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Emerson
(c) William Carlos William, E.E. Cummings, Archibald Macleish
(d) Archibald Macleish, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Allan Poe
Question’s Answer: Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay,Edgar Lee Masters, Harriet Monroe
Which following features describes “Chicago poets’, best?
(a) Oral and bardic tradition
(b) Free Verse
(c) Hymnal
(d) Cadence
Question’s Answer: Oral and bardic tradition
Which following poetic qualities describe Sandburg’s poetry best?
(a) Robust like Whitman’s poetry
(b) A rebel against the conventional poetry
(c) Genuine rhythm and Midwest ballad song
(d) Love for the real resilience of the working class people
Question’s Answer: Genuine rhythm and Midwest ballad song
Whose monumental biography Sandburg wrote making him famous?
(a) George Washington
(b) Thomas Jefferson
(c) Andrew Jackson
(d) Abraham Lincoln
Question’s Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Where did Carl Sandburg find happiness?
(a) On the bank of Desplaines river
(b) Statue of Liberty
(c) Niagara Falls
(d) Southern deserts
Question’s Answer: On the bank of Desplaines river
What is the main thrust in Sandburg’s “I am the People. The Mob”?
(a) Individuals are mortals but mankind or people are a continuity and their end never comes
(b) People make individuals great
(c) Democracy
(d) Napoleons and Hiders die,mankind lives on
Question’s Answer: Individuals are mortals but mankind or people are a continuity and their end never comes
How best can which lines from “Fog” be described?
(a) Illusory
(b) Idealistic
(c) Delicate and realistic
(d) Fake
Question’s Answer: Delicate and realistic
How does the “Fog,” according to Carl Sandburg, leave the city and harbour after sneakily arriving?
(a) As quickly as it comes
(b) Gradually
(c) Lingeringly
(d) Hastily
Question’s Answer: Lingeringly
When Robert Frost was born?
(a) 1884
(b) 1978
(c) 1874
(d) 1871
Question’s Answer: 1874
What is Robert Frost’s ancestory?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) England
(c) Wild West of America
(d) New England
Question’s Answer: New England
What is Robert Frost’s truebackground?
(a) Poetry writing
(b) Teaching
(c) Lecturing
(d) Shoemaking and farming
Question’s Answer: Shoemaking and farming
Robert Frost aspired to compose poetry that was ___.
(a) As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe
(b) Heartfelt
(c) Truly representative of American dream
Question’s Answer: As simple and honest as an axe or a hoe
Robert Frost was known as the first American poet who ___ .
(a) achieved world recognition
(b) culogized shoemaking
(c) Depicted American landscape
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: None of these
Robert Frost was a craftsman and farmer who enhanced American poetry by including
(a) Metaphor of farming Imagery of seasonal changes
(b) Using his experiences of a craftsman and husbandry
(d) Presenting forest and fauna
Question’s Answer: Using his experiences of a craftsman and husbandry
In his poetry, Robert Frost incorporated _____.
(a) Metre
(b) American expressions
(c) Free verse and colloquialism
(d) Imitation of Greek poetry
Question’s Answer: Free verse and colloquialism
The greatest explanations for Frost’s poetry is by
(a) Mask
(b) Ballad
(c) Synecdoche
(d) Monologues
Question’s Answer: Synecdoche
Who made these lines famous?
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep.”
(a) Robert Graves
(b) John F. Kennedy
(c) Carl Sandburg
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Question’s Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
Which Frost poem having the line,”Good fences make good neighbours”?
(a) “Reluctance”
(b) “The Pasture”
(c) “Mending Wall”
(d) “In Hardwood Groves”
Question’s Answer: “Mending Wall”
Why Frost did not believe in erecting walls to make good neighbours?
(a) Tresspassers can’t be kept away
(b) Walls merely mark territory
(c) Neighbour’s pines and poet’s apple trees will never wrangle
(d) Walls create a possibility of mischief
Question’s Answer: Neighbour’s pines and poet’s apple trees will never wrangle
For Frost no walls are needed between neighbours for he believed in
(a) Man’s ability to walk in light and darkness
(b) Mutual trust
(c) Goodness of man
(d) Universal brotherhood based on love and trust
Question’s Answer: Universal brotherhood based on love and trust
In “The Death of the Hired Man” Robert Frost talks of
(a) Human dignity
(b) Pride
(c) Love for farming
(d) Loss of will to work
Question’s Answer: Human dignity
What does Frost see in the birches?
(a) Tenacity
(b) Life
(c) Suppleness and resilience
(d) Strength
Question’s Answer: Suppleness and resilience
E.E. Cummings was born in the year
(a) 1858
(b) 1884
(c) 1894
(d) 1809
Question’s Answer: 1894
Cummings pass away in the year
(a) 1930
(b) 1950
(c) 1972
(d) 1962
Question’s Answer: 1962
Cummings was born and brought up in which area?
(a) Boston
(b) Texas
(c) California
(d) Cambridge, Massachusettes
Question’s Answer: Texas
According to ____, “Life, for eternal us, is now”
(a) E.E. Cummings
(b) Hart Crane
(c) Archibald Macleish
(d) Wallace Stevens
Question’s Answer: E.E. Cummings
According to ____, “Always the beautiful answer who ask a question” more beautiful
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) E.E. Cummings
(d) William Carlos Williams
Question’s Answer: E.E. Cummings
Cummings was imprisoned because of _______.
(a) Conscientious objections to participation in war
(b) Bohemian way of life
(c) Irresponsible activities
(d) For his bold poetry
Question’s Answer: Conscientious objections to participation in war
What did Cummings write about the Cambridge ladies?
(a) Their belief in theory of best value
(b) Their superficialities
(c) Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented
(d) Beauty,comfort,coyness,lavender are unrealistic
Question’s Answer: Their ‘coy’ appearance and a life of ‘bandy scandal’ are unrelated fragmented
In which poem of Cummings these lines occur?
“I sing of Olaf glad and big”
Whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious objector.
(a) “The Cambridge Ladies”
(b) “Among Crumbling People”
(c) “No man, If Men are Gods”
(d) “I Sing of OLaf Glad And Big”
Question’s Answer: “I Sing of OLaf Glad And Big”
When was Hart Crane born?
(a) 1905
(b) 1900
(c) 1899
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1899
Hart Crane belongs to which part of America?
(a) Boston
(b) New York
(c) Philadelphia
(d) Ohio
Question’s Answer: Ohio
What is common in Hart Crane and Edgar Allan Poe?
(a) Americans
(b) Dark and troubled life, emotionally disturbed and disintegrated
(c) Committed poets in an established tradition
(d) Great tradition of American poetry
Question’s Answer: Dark and troubled life, emotionally disturbed and disintegrated
What made Crane an outstanding poet of his period?
(a) Faith in the American principle of unity
(b) Voice of the different peoples into one nationality
(c) Combination of varied languages and customs
(d) Unity and diversity
Question’s Answer: Voice of the different peoples into one nationality
What is the significance of Hart Crane’s “Ave Maria”?
(a) Hail Mary
(b) Christian significance in the poems a prayer, hail Mary
(c) Praise of Mary, the mother of Christ
(d) Prayer for Mary, Christ’s mother
Question’s Answer: Christian significance in the poems a prayer, hail Mary
What unique element has been incorporated in Hart Crane’s “The Voyages”?
(a) Organic structure
(b) Music
(c) Image of “adagios of islands” refers to the motion of a boat,the rhythm of motion
(d) Directive and creative
Question’s Answer: Image of “adagios of islands” refers to the motion of a boat,the rhythm of motion
What other poetic features are achievements of Hart Crane?
(a) Combination of music of words
(b) Metaphor
(c) Logical employment and metaphor
(d) Music
Question’s Answer: Combination of music of words
In which poem Archibald Macleish presents his ideas about poetry?
(a) “Ars Poetica”
(b) “The End of the World”
(c) “Landscape As A Nude”
(d) “Empire Builders”
Question’s Answer: “Ars Poetica”
In which poem Archibald Macleish declares? “A poem should not mean But be.”
(a) “Ars Poetica”
(b) “The End of the World” …
(c) “Empire Builders”
(d) “Landscape As A Nude”
Question’s Answer: “Ars Poetica”
When William Carlos Williams was born?
(a) 1880
(b) 190098
(c) 1893
(d) 1883
Question’s Answer: 1883
Williams’ poetry can be best described as
(a) Imagism
(b) Metaphoric
(c) Objective presentation
(d) Astute workman in language with the rhythm of speech and the quality of sound
Question’s Answer: Astute workman in language with the rhythm of speech and the quality of sound
According to_____ , “an image is not a poem”?
(a) Archibald Macleish
(b) William Carlos Williams
(c) Hart Crane
(d) Robert Frost
Question’s Answer: William Carlos Williams
Williams comes close to an American poet in having confidence in man, he is
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Hart Crane
(c) E.E. Cummings
(d) Walt Whitman
Question’s Answer: Walt Whitman
Stevens was born in
(a) Massachusetts
(b) Reading, Pennsylvania
(c) Ohio
(d) Kentucky
Question’s Answer: Reading, Pennsylvania
Who believed that poetry lies in freedom of expression and not being bound by form?
(a) Wallace Stevens
(b) Robert Frost
(c) William Carlos Williams
(d) Walt Whitman
Question’s Answer: Wallace Stevens
Where Theodore Roethke was born?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Boston
(c) New York
(d) Michigan
Question’s Answer: Michigan
Roethke’s lyrics express
(a) Growth and decay in plants
(b) This imagery pervades his poetry
(c) Growth and decay become imagery
(d) Development
Question’s Answer: Growth and decay become imagery
Roethke is close to W.B. Yeats in what?
(a) Visionary strain
(b) Great sensitivity
(c) Understanding of life characteristics
(d) Vision of life
Question’s Answer: Visionary strain
The poem ___ having these lines,
“In moving slow he has no peer./You ask him something in his ear; / He thinks about it for a year”
(a) “The Sloth”
(b) “The Lost Son”
(c) “The Partner”
(d) “Elegy for Jane”
Question’s Answer: “The Sloth”
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