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Example Questions
Example Question #121 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following labels could not be applied to the work of the author of Helen in Egypt?
Feminist
Avant-garde
Classicist
Imagist
Confessional
Confessional
H.D. was not a confessional poet, as this movement did not emerge until the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her work, however, took inspiration from Classical Greek poetry and was both Imagist and avant-garde. She was also an outspoken feminist, and works such as Helen in Egypt challenged traditional male voices in poetry.
Helen in Egypt (1961) was H.D's last book of poetry.
Example Question #122 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth?
Amy Lowell
Marianne Moore
Sylvia Plath
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2007) is one of Adrienne Rich’s last poetry collections.
Amy Lowell wrote Legends (1921), Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar (1963), Marianne Moore wrote O to Be a Dragon (1959), and Gwendolyn MacEwen wrote The Rising Fire (1963).
Example Question #123 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another book by the author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth?
The Colossus and Other Poems
The Diamond Cutters, and Other Poems
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems
The Dream of a Common Language
Diving into the Wreck
The Colossus and Other Poems
The Colossus and Other Poems is a 1960 collection by Sylvia Plath. All the rest are works by Adrienne Rich.
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems was published in 1991, The Diamond Cutters, and Other Poems was published in 1955, Diving into the Wreck was published in 1973, The Dream of a Common Language was published in 1978, and Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth was published in 2007.
Example Question #124 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What award did the author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth infamously decline?
The Nobel Prize
The U.S. Poet Laureate
The National Book Award
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Medal of Arts
The National Medal of Arts
In 1997, Rich declined the National Medal of Arts in order to protest a proposition to cut government funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and other government policies.
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth was published in 2007.
Example Question #125 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of Meditations in an Emergency?
John Ashbery
Denis Johnson
Kenneth Koch
William S. Burroughs
Frank O’Hara
Frank O’Hara
Meditations in an Emergency (1957) is Frank O’Hara’s third collection. The title is allegedly an allusion to a work by the English poet John Donne.
Kenneth Koch wrote Thank You and Other Poems (1962), John Ashbery wrote Your Name Here (2000), William S. Burroughs wrote Junky (1953), and Denis Jonson wrote Jesus' Son (1992).
Example Question #126 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
The author of Meditations in an Emergency was considered an important founder of which literary group?
The Algonquin Round Table
The Inklings
The New York School
The Bloomsbury Group
The Factory
The New York School
Along with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara was an important member of the New York School and contributed greatly to its surrealist, abstract expressionist, and avant-garde aesthetic.
Meditations in an Emergency was published in 1957.
Example Question #127 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not a title of a poem in the collection Meditations in an Emergency?
To the Harbormaster
Romanze, or The Music Students
For Grace, After a Party
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a 1917 poem by Wallace Stevens.
All of the other answer choices were published in Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency (1957).
Example Question #128 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of Helen in Egypt?
Marianne Moore
H.D.
Robert Lowell
Amy Lowell
Ezra Pound
H.D.
This is the female Imagist poet and prose writer H.D (H.D was the pen name of Hilda Doolittle). H.D was born in 1886, and was active in publishing from 1916 until her death in 1961.
Ezra Pound wrote Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920), Amy Lowell (another American Imagist poet) wrote A Dome of Many Coloured Glass (1912), Robert Lowell wrote the Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951), and Marianne Moore wrote Nevertheless (1944).
Helen in Egypt (1961) was H.D's last book of poetry.
Example Question #129 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What is another name of the author of Helen in Egypt?
Henrietta Davenport
Donald Hughes
D.H. Lawrence
Henry Douglas
Hilda Doolittle
Hilda Doolittle
H.D. is the pen name of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961).
Henry Douglas, Henrietta Davenport, and Donald Hughes were not notable American poets at all, but were provided here as alternative names with the initials H.D. The novelist and poet D.H. Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Helen in Egypt (1961) was H.D's last book of poetry.
Example Question #130 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is the title of another collection by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Tulips
Marriage
Mad Girl’s Love Song
Questions of Travel
An Octopus
Questions of Travel
Published in 1965, Questions of Travel reflects Bishop’s residence in Brazil and journeys in South America. The rest of the titles are individual poems by Sylvia Plath and Marianne Moore.
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