2. Just so you know
alumna/alumnae; alumnus/alumni: literally “foster
daughter” and “foster son,” these words refer in American
usage to graduates of an educational institution. Most
universities tend to use the masculine forms only.
crisis/crises: singular crisis (krahy-sis). Latin plural crises
(krahy-seez). You can have one crisis and several crises
criterion/criteria: One judges the worth of a book
according to a set of criteria. One criterion might be style.
Another criterion might be accuracy.
phenomenon/phenomena A tornado is a phenomenon
of Nature. Other phenomena are earthquakes,
thunderstorms, and floods.
4. Lyric Poetry
Lyric poetry has a long history. Its most basic
definition is poetry that has a rhythmic quality that
makes it able to be sung. Originally, it was
accompanied by a lyre.
Lyric poetry is likewise identified by its expression of
intense, personal emotion. It is quite powerful
because it draws readers into personal worlds. It is
often, but not always, written in the present tense.
5. Lyric Modernists?
Modernist poetry is generally a turning away from
inherited models of poetry.
With the imagist movement, poets distanced
themselves from the reliance on musicality and the
richness of sound, focusing instead on the
complexities of image, the precision of words, and
the directness of language.
T.S. Eliot says, in “Tradition and the Individual
Talent” that “poetry is not a turning loose of
emotion, but an escape from emotion.” Yet, lyric
poetry seems to be about emotion.
6. How is it Possible?
Wallace Stevens says in “The Figure of the Youth as
Virile Poet,” that “It is the mundo of the imagination
in which the imaginative man delights and not the
gaunt world of reason. The pleasure is the pleasure
of powers that create a truth that cannot be arrived
at by the reason alone, a truth that the poet
recognizes by sensation.”
Wallace Stevens’ lyrical poetry is modern in that it is
a continued and methodical experiment with new
ways of using language, another focus of the
moderns.
8. The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
9. The Emperor Of Ice-Cream
By Wallace Stevens
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal.
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
10. 1 . RULES OF WRITING BASED ON INTRODUCTION
SLIDES
1. I waited with bated/baited breath.
2. PASSAGE IDENTIFICATION BY WORK
1. “But Mrs. Hale, the law is the law.”
3. CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION
1. Similar to quiz
4. WHO SAID IT? MODERN MANIFESTOS
1. “It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce
voluminous works.”
Exam Review
11. 5. AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION
1. In 1912, on a visit to her family in Red Cloud, she stood on the edge
of a wheat field and watched her first harvest in years.
6. NAME EVENTS THAT INFLUENCED SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL MODERNITY
1. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
7 . TERMS: FILL IN THE BLANK
1. ________________occurs when a word, image, or event generates
two or more different meanings”
Exam Review
12. 8. WHO WROTE IT?
1. “The Snow Man”
9. SHORT ESSAY/LONG ANSWER
1. Name and explain one important symbol
from Trifles.
Exam Review
13. THE EXAM IS WORTH 100 POINTS
75%
HOW MANY QUESTIONS DO YOU WANT TO
ANSWER?
25%
HOW MANY SHORT ESSAYS/LONG ANSWER?
Exam Review
14. HOMEWORK
Study for the exam by reviewing each of
the authors and texts we have discussed
so far.
