final exam

Question 1

subdivision of the 20th century

Answer 1

modernism
contemporary or postmodern period

Question 2

edwardian period

1921 irish free state

Answer 2

britain

Question 3

shared

Answer 3

ww1
stock market crash:economic depression/great depression

Question 4

jfk assassinated
milk assasinated

Answer 4

america

Question 5

before ww1 man had faith in _______

Answer 5

society and art

Question 6

son of former slaves, published first book of poetry in 1893; first black poet to use black dialect, dealt with difficulties of being black

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paul lawrence dunbar

Question 7

author of sympathy

Answer 7

paul lawrence dunbar

Question 8

what does caged bird symbolize in sympathy

Answer 8

oppression

Question 9

author of we wear a mask

Answer 9

paul l. dunbar

Question 10

what does that mask symbolize in we wear the mask

Answer 10

2 identities
and deception

Question 11

what is we wear the mask considered

Answer 11

dunbar greatest poem

Question 12

Polish parents, born in Ukraine
Became British citizen
polish was his third language

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joseph conrad

Question 13

author of the lagoon

Answer 13

joseph conrad

Question 14

imagery of the lagoon

Answer 14

darkness and light

Question 15

what does the darkness of forest represent

Answer 15

the darkness of arsats heart

Question 16

what did the poem the lagoon recognize

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mans sin nature

Question 17

themes of. the lagoon

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remorse
selfishness
moral ambiguity
arsat sacrifices his honor for his love

Question 18

greatest irish poet ;irish nationalist, irish literary renaissance, link between romanticism and modernism

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william butler yeats

Question 19

author of the wild swans at coole

Answer 19

william yeats

Question 20

what is the theme of the wild swans at coole ;contrasts the speaker now vs. 19 years

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aging ; contrasts the speaker now vs. 19 years

Question 21

h

Question 22

context of the wild swans at coole

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after ww1 working for irish independence

Question 23

popular in the 1920sand 30s, chicago renaissance; socialist characteristics of poetry

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carl sandburg

Question 24

learned form whitman ;emphasized on thr common man

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carl sandburg

Question 25

admires city because of working city

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chicago

Question 26

author of chicago

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carl sandburg

Question 27

theme of chicago

Answer 27

celebrates this working class city

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author of fog

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carl sandburg

Question 29

style of fog

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imagism

Question 30

Best known, best loved American poet o New England Regionalist

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robert frost

Question 31

Traditional verse, New England dialect ▪ Basically contemporaries with T.S. Elliot ▪ Established his reputation in England (the old one, not the new one) ▪ Persona of wise country man living close to nature

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robert frost

Question 32

author of the road not taken

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robert frost

Question 33

author of birches

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robert frost

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Leading Modern poet after 1922 o Wasteland (1922), his masterpiece o Joined Anglican Church (1927) o “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro

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tS elliot

Question 35

author of the love song of j alfred prufrock

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t.s elliot

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A soldier, died in 1918 during WW

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wilfred owen

Question 37

Anthem for Doomed youth

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wilfred owen

Question 38

o Major modern American poet who was overshadowed by T.S. Elliot’s Wasteland o Imagistic – not comment on modern civilization

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marianne moore

Question 39

author of poetry

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marianne moore

Question 40

Leader within American Harlem Renaissance o Experimented with poetic form

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langston hughes

Question 41

the negros speaks of rivers

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langston hughes

Question 42

Written 1920. A key poem of the Harlem Renaissance ▪ Describes history of blacks, including triumphs and trage

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the negros speak of rivers

Question 43

Known for precise description o A major American poet: Pullitzer Prize o Taught at Havard in 1970

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elizabeth bishop

Question 44

the fish

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elizabeth bishop

Question 45

theme of fish

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fisgis worthy of honor

Question 46

ones art

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elizabeth bishop

Question 47

theme of one art

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nothing is permanent loss is inevitable

Question 48

Ireland’s most important poet o Nobel prize for Literature 1995 o Made a translation of Beowulf

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seamus heaney

Question 49

former us poet lauret e very popular living american poet

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billy collins

Question 50

the lanyard

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billy colin’s

Question 51

seamus heaney

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digging

Question 52

diggin themes

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hard work

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lanyard theme

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repaying sacrificial love

Question 54

themes of old man and sea

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Persistence (fighting against defeat) • Courage in difficult circumstances • Proper view of death based on Hemingway’s Code

Question 55

author of old man and sea

Answer 55

ernest hemingway