Modern American Poets

What was Ezra Pounds famous motto concerning modern poetry?

• Make it up!

• Make it new!

• Make it interesting!

• The image is all!

which of the following is NOT an element of modernist poetry according to Pound in his Imagist Manifesto?

• The use of the exact word

• A preference for free verse

• Absolute freedom in the choice of subjects

• Poetry should use complex language.

If a poem does not rhyme, but has a set meter it is an example of what?

• Free verse

• Blank verse

• Common verse

• Basic verse

"The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" is an example of what type of poem?

• dramatic monologue

• mock epic

• a prosody

• a soliloquoy

Name the author and the poem that contains this line, "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them".

• T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"

• Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

• Ezra Pound, "The Garden"

• Wallace Stevens, "Of Modern Poetry"

Which poet defined their poetry as poetry of the "local"?

• Robert Frost

• Ezra Pound

• Wallace Stevens

• William Carlos Williams

On what does so much depend?

• The figure 5 on a fire truck

• A white heal all

• Plums in an icebox

• A red wheelbarrow

Name the author and poem that contains the line, "A poem should be wordless as the flight of birds"

• T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"

• Ezra Pound, "The River Merchant's Wife"

• Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica"

• Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

In "Domination of Black", what might the peacocks symbolize?

• death

• life

• peace

• understanding

What do you think Stevens meant by this line, "The poem of the act of the mind"?

• That poetry must be centered on the image

• That he dislikes poetry

• That poetry is important only when understood

• That the process of reading poetry is a work of the imagination