GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of American Poetry After 1925
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Example Question #31 : Identification Of American Poetry
Which modernist poet wrote “Baseball and Writing,” “He Made This Screen,” and “Poetry”?
Anne Sexton
Mary Oliver
Frank O’Hara
John Dos Passos
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is noted for her innovations and irony in her poems. She often eschewed formal meter and used animal motifs and interesting language to develop her themes, and she was known for criticizing the institution of poetry (as in her poem "Poetry").
Example Question #32 : Identification Of American Poetry
Who is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Rita Dove
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
Maya Angelou
Amiri Baraka
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, a famous African-American poet and prose writer, is best known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and for her inspirational poetry. She published more than a dozen major works during her lifetime.
Example Question #33 : Identification Of American Poetry
Which poet is the author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and The Tennis Court Oath, two characteristically opaque and controversial poetry collections?
Adrienne Rich
John Dos Passos
John Ashbery
Anne Sexton
Frank O’Hara
John Ashbery
This contemporary postmodernist poet is John Ashbery. During his lifetime, Ashbery has produced more than a dozen volumes of poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is known for its wordplay, surrealism, avant-garde syntax, and ability to resist critical analysis.
Example Question #34 : Identification Of American Poetry
Who is the author of the postmodernist poetry collection The Dream Songs?
John Berryman
Frank O’Hara
Elizabeth Bishop
John Dos Passos
Anne Sexton
John Berryman
John Berryman, a leading confessional and postmodern poet, is best known for the collection The Dream Songs, a compilation of his two books 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. The work, which won the Pulitzer Prize, features a semi-autobiographical and identity-shifting character named Henry as well as a sometimes controversial appropriation of black language.
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