QUESTION: 69

For I have known them all already, known them all: –
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all –
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

The imagery of lines 57-58 is borrowed from what hobby?

Sewing
Insect collecting
Wrestling
Pennant collecting
Flower arranging

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

The narrator fears being examined and displayed like an insect in an insect collection.

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QUESTION: 70

Which modern poet wrote poetry while working as an insurance executive?

Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
Langston Hughes
E.E. Cummings
Hart Crane

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Determined that he would “never make a petty struggle for existence,” Wallace Stevens worked as an insurance executive while writing and publishing poetry.

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QUESTION: 71

In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Which poetic form does the above poem most closely match in subject and rhythm?

Haiku
Free verse
Limerick
Rondel
Epic

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Haiku are short poem of 17 syllables arranged in lines of 5-7-5 syllables. This poem contains 17 syllables arranged in the 5-7-5 pattern. Further, the poem’s use of natural images is also typical of haiku.
Haiku were greatly admired models for the Imagist school, an early twentieth century movement that attempted to shed excess words to create poems of clear, concise details. This poem is “In a Station of the Metro” (1913, 1916) by Ezra Pound, one of the early leaders in the Imagist movement.

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QUESTION: 72

Which poet wrote the epic poem “Paterson” about his hometown of Paterson, N.J.?

William Carlos Williams
Edgar Allen Poe
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Anne Bradstreet

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

William Carlos Williams was raised and lived in Rutherford, N.J., a town near the city of Paterson, N.J. His work often describes the everyday beauty of average Americans.

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