GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of World Poetry After 1925
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Example Question #1 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which major Caribbean poet wrote The Arrivants, Middle Passages, and Born to Slow Horses?
Aimé Césaire
Ama Ata Aidoo
Stanley French
Kamau Brathwaite
Jean “Binta” Breeze
Kamau Brathwaite
This is Kamau Brathwaite, a Barbados-born poet and author of critical works such as History of the Voice and The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica.
Example Question #2 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Nobel Prize-winning Eastern European poet wrote The World, City Without a Name, and The Unencompassed Earth?
Czesław Miłosz
Jan Polkowski
Grigori Dashevsky
Joseph Brodsky
Wisława Szymborska
Czesław Miłosz
This is the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, who is also known for his nonfiction book denouncing Stalin titled The Captive Mind. Miłosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980.
Example Question #3 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Nobel Prize-winning Eastern European poet wrote Elegy for John Donne and Other Poems, On Grief and Reason, and To Urania?
Czesław Miłosz
Grigori Dashevsky
Jan Polkowski
Wisława Szymborska
Joseph Brodsky
Czesław Miłosz
This is the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States in the 1970s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991.
Example Question #4 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
The Jamaican poet Jean “Binta” Breeze wrote all of the following except which collection of poetry?
The Fifth Figure
The Arrival of Brighteye and Other Poems
Sea Grapes
Third World Girl
Riddym Ravings and Other Poems
Sea Grapes
Sea Grapes is a 1976 poetry collection by Derek Walcott.
Example Question #5 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet wrote Omeros, a contemporary Caribbean epic poem that loosely reimagines Homer’s Iliad?
Aimé Césaire
Derek Walcott
Ama Ata Aidoo
Stanley French
Kamau Brathwaite
Derek Walcott
This is the St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, an important post-colonial writer. Omeros was published in 1990 and contains characters with mythical names such as Achille, Hector, and Helen, although the work itself is set primarily in modern-day St. Lucia.
Example Question #6 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Caribbean poet wrote the seminal book-length poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land?
Kamau Brathwaite
René Depestre
Stanley French
Aimé Césaire
Ama Ata Aidoo
Aimé Césaire
This is the Martinican writer Aimé Césaire, an important founder of négritude in French-language literature. Césaire’s work also includes plays such as A Tempest (based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and critical essays such as Discourse on Colonialism. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land was first published in 1939 in France.
Example Question #7 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
What is contemporary Japanese poetry called?
shi
haiku
waka
gendai-shi
tanka
gendai-shi
All of these terms except “gendai-shi” refer to older, more traditional forms of Japanese poetry.
Example Question #7 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which of the following works is by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam?
“The Lady with the Dog”
“The Overcoat”
Verses on the Unknown Soldier
Notes from the Underground
Pale Fire
Verses on the Unknown Soldier
“The Lady with the Dog” is by Anton Chekhov, “The Overcoat” is by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Notes from the Underground is by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Pale Fire is by Vladimir Nabokov.
Example Question #8 : Identification Of World Poetry After 1925
Which Latin American poet wrote odes to age, ironing, socks, tomatoes, and birdwatching?
Pablo Neruda
Jorge Luis Borges
Mario Vargas Llosa
César Vallejo
Octavio Paz
Pablo Neruda
This is the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Example Question #71 : Identification
Peruvian poet César Vallejo wrote which of the following works?
Los Heraldos Negros
The Aleph
Ficciones
The Library of Babel
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Los Heraldos Negros
Only Los Heraldos Negros is by Vallejo. The rest are works by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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