Unit 14- Modern Poetry

Question 1

three most distinct voices in modern poetry

Answer 1

Robinson, Frost, Cummings

Question 2

America’s greatest modern poet

Answer 2

Frost

Question 3

most experimental modern poet

Answer 3

Cummmings

Question 4

America’s most influential modern poet

Answer 4

T.S Eliot

Question 5

problems with modern poetry

Answer 5

1. questions traditional values and beliefs
2. occupied with modern psychology
3. reflects naturalism and turns to Marxism

Question 6

one group of international experimental poets who organized a revolt against traditional forms

Answer 6

Imagists

Question 7

modern poems are characterized by

Answer 7

common speech
free rhythm
and above all the use of clear images

Question 8

wrote What Riches Have You?

Answer 8

George Santanya

Question 9

greatest riches

Answer 9

faith and hope we have in God

Question 10

wrote The Hill

Answer 10

Edgar Lee Masters

Question 11

theme of What Riches Have You?

Answer 11

faith and hope we have in God are the greatest riches

Question 12

considered a landmark in American literature

Answer 12

Spon River Anhology

Question 13

made up of 244 poetic monologues by various characters who have died

Answer 13

Spoon River Anthology

Question 14

wrote Anne Rutledge

Answer 14

Edgar Lee Masters

Question 15

Anne Rutlidge loved

Answer 15

Abe Lincoln

Question 16

wrote Emily Sparks

Answer 16

Masters

Question 17

Emily sparks was a

Answer 17

teacher, old maid

Question 18

Emily Sparks taught her children about

Answer 18

God
evil of sin

Question 19

wrote Lois Spears

Answer 19

Masters

Question 20

Lois Spears disability

Answer 20

blind

Question 21

what was Lois Spear’s attitude

Answer 21

happy
glory to God

Question 22

wrote Rev. Lemuel Wiley

Answer 22

Masters

Question 23

” I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals.”

Answer 23

Rev. Lemuel Wiley

Question 24

Wiley’s greatest accomplishment

Answer 24

saved a marriage

Question 25

wrote Hannah Armstrong

Answer 25

Masters

Question 26

Hannah Armstrong was friends with

Answer 26

Abe Lincoln

Question 27

what did Hannah Armstrong request

Answer 27

sick son be released from the army

Question 28

wrote Lucinda Matlock

Answer 28

Masters

Question 29

psuedonym for Master's grandma

Answer 29

Lucinda Matlock

Question 30

"Life is too strong for you-- It takes life to live life."

Answer 30

Lucinda Matlock

Question 31

The Hill is a

Answer 31

cemetery

Question 32

wrote Reuben Pantier

Answer 32

Masters

Question 33

Emily sparks students

Answer 33

Reuben

Question 34

wrote Go Down Death- A Funeral Sermon

Answer 34

James Weldon Johnson

Question 35

literary device used to describe death in Go Down Death

Answer 35

metaphor

Question 36

reason for Sister Caroline's death

Answer 36

God had pity on her because of her pain

Question 37

Sister Caroline's testimony

Answer 37

done much for Christ worked hard

Question 38

Sister Caroline emotion towards death

Answer 38

not fear peace

Question 39

wrote The Creation

Answer 39

James Weldon Johnson

Question 40

qualities of God in Creation

Answer 40

more like a human

Question 41

message to us about God's creation of man

Answer 41

made us exactly how He wanted made us in His one image

Question 42

first black person to be admitted to the Florida bar

Answer 42

James Weldon Johnson

Question 43

wrote When All is Done

Answer 43

Paul Larence Dunbar

Question 44

probably the first black poet to use black dialect in poems and novels

Answer 44

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 45

what did Laurence say in When All Is DOne

Answer 45

don't mourn for me

Question 46

according to When All is done, death is a

Answer 46

relief

Question 47

wrote We Wear the Mask

Answer 47

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Question 48

theme of We Wear a Mask

Answer 48

hide our hurts from the world but show them to Christ

Question 49

wrote Hymn

Answer 49

Dunbar

Question 50

in Hymn storms are metaphor for

Answer 50

troubles

Question 51

wrote The Taxi

Answer 51

Amy Lowell

Question 52

happened The Taxi

Answer 52

someone left

Question 53

words describe author feels in The Taxi

Answer 53

prick, sharp edges, ridges, wedge

Question 54

theme of The Taxi

Answer 54

feel isolated when person leaves

Question 55

wrote In Flander's Fields

Answer 55

John McCrae

Question 56

about dead soldiers

Answer 56

In Flanders Fields

Question 57

what did the dead soldiers want?

Answer 57

continue fight for freedom

Question 58

wrote The Road Not Taken

Answer 58

Robert Frost

Question 59

theme of Road Not Taken

Answer 59

take the right path

Question 60

wrote The Pasture

Answer 60

Robert Frost

Question 61

two things speaker plans to do in the Pasture

Answer 61

clean pasture fetch calf

Question 62

wrote Tree at My Window

Answer 62

Robert Frost

Question 63

how are the speaker and the tree alike in Tree at My Window

Answer 63

both had storms trees enduring outside storm, boy enduring inward storm

Question 64

metaphor in Tree t My Window

Answer 64

tongues-leaves

Question 65

wrote Revelation

Answer 65

Frost

Question 66

poem from Frost that says he wants relationships, wants to be understood by world

Answer 66

Revelation

Question 67

wrote Flower-Gathering

Answer 67

Frost

Question 68

theme of Flower-Gathering

Answer 68

author sad that he's gone

Question 69

gave successes and to person he made them for

Answer 69

Flower-Gathering

Question 70

wrote They Were Welcome to Their Belief

Answer 70

Frost

Question 71

what happened to man's hair

Answer 71

went white

Question 72

why did hair go white?

Answer 72

old age

Question 73

wrote Birches

Answer 73

Frost

Question 74

theme of Birches

Answer 74

He wants to go back to the days of no worries

Question 75

God's presence will keep us safe

Answer 75

Hymns

Question 76

birch trees described

Answer 76

light and bending

Question 77

metaphors Birches

Answer 77

glass-ice filling jug- climbing trees

Question 78

what does it mean to be a swinger of birches

Answer 78

wants to let go of cares and concerns of life for a while

Question 79

most outstanding AMerican poet of the twentieth century

Answer 79

Frost