This document appears to be a study guide for an American modern literature class, containing true/false questions, short answer questions, and multiple choice questions about various modern American poems and poets such as T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Edna St. Millay, Theodore Roethke, John Crowe Ransom, and Robert Frost. The study guide tests knowledge of the themes, symbols, styles, and biographical contexts of these modernist works.

1. STUDY POWERPOINT for AMERICAN MODERN LITERATURE CLASS

2. TRUE / FALSE

3. Eliot is important for his literary criticism as well as his writing.

5. God refrains from calling his creation good until after he creates man.

7. “ The Creation” employs personification.

9. God made the sun by rolling light up into a ball.

11. Sandburg presents a positive picture of “Chicago.”

13. The beginning and ending of “Chicago” repeat thus lending unity to the poem.

15. Williams attempted to present actual American speech in his verse.

17. “ In the Station of the Metro” is an imagist poem.

19. Ezra Pound’s poetry had little or no influence on other poets.

21. The word apparition in his poem has several meanings.

23. After Auden’s move to the United States his thoughts became primarily religious.

25. Millay is considered to be the master of the sonnet.

27. After graduation from college Millay adopted a bohemian lifestyle.

29. Millay didn’t begin writing poetry until her later years.

31. The speaker in “Dolor” hates the lack of order in public institutions.

33. Roethke was awarded multiple prizes for his poetry.

35. Roethke hated people who imitate other authors.

37. Ransom fought for an industrialized South.

39. Ransom founded the Kenyon Review.

41. Frost’s poetry is primarily concerned with nature.

43. SHORT ANSWER

44. According to “The Creation,” why did God make the world?

46. What is significant about “alien people clutching their gods” in “Journey of the Magi?”

48. How do the Magi spend the night because of inn situations?

50. What does the headline, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r mean when it says the reader must be a grasshopper himself?

52. In “somewhere i have never travelled,” what contrasting actions does the author say his beloved can make him do?

54. What figurative expression does Chicago employ as a whole?

56. Between coming and moving on, what other actions does the fog employ?

58. “ Fog” compares fog to what?

60. Williams believed that meaning could only be found in what?

62. Williams believed that meaning could only be found in what?

64. In “The Station of the Metro” what is the Metro?

66. Pound is a major force behind what movement?

68. What is the object of satire in “The Unknown Citizen?”

70. In Sonnet XXVI what is the focus of the end of the poem?

72. “ Dolor” refers to the endless duplication of what two things?

74. What poem first brought Millay national attention?

76. What color characterizes the product of the environment described in Dolor?

78. What aspect of Roethke’s background influenced the setting for his poem, “Dolor?”

80. What is another name for the Southern Agrarians, the group Ransom led at Vanderbilt University?

82. In “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” why can’t the author stay too long?

84. What is the source of the speaker’s disappointment in “The Road Not Taken?”

86. What does the last stanza of “Miniver Cheevy” reveal about his wasted life?

88. From what activity does Miniver Cheevy have to rest?

90. Multiple Choice

91. What influences hinder spiritual interest in “The Journey of the Magi?”

93. In “The Journey of the Magi,” what do the three trees symbolize?

95. Be sure to study all of the Poet questions on your study sheet. They will each be multiple choice questions.

96. According to “The Creation,” what causes light to come forth?

98. In order to understand the grasshopper poem, what must be ignored?

100. “ somewhere i have never travelled” features what central metaphor?

102. What is the main focus in “somewhere i have never travelled?”

104. What does “Chicago” compare the city to?

106. What is the tone of “Chicago” in the last stanza?

108. In “Chicago” word choices seem to emphasize ___.

110. How are “Poem” and “Red Wheelbarrow” similar?

112. “ Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” seems to focus on what comparison?

114. “ Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” presents information from whose perspective?

116. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” repetition in the last two lines emphasizes what?

118. In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the speaker stops to do what?

120. In “The Road Not Taken,” why does the speaker pause?

122. Why is Miniver Cheevy’s love for the Medici ironic?

124. In “Miniver Cheevy” who thinks of Miniver as child of scorn ?

126. What word best describes Miniver Cheevy?

128. ESSAY: Choose one poem that we have read and either compare or contrast it with a biblical view of the topic using three examples.