The Global Open University 2012-1st Year M.A English Global open University of Modern Literature - Question Paper

16. Which poem ends 'I shall but
love thee better after death'?
a. How do I love thee
b. Ode to a Grecian urn
c. In faith I do not love thee with mine
eyes
d. Let me not to the wedding of actual
minds
17. Which poet is considered a
national hero in Greece?
a. John keats
b. Lord Byron
c. Solan
d. Sappho
18. Which type of poem is Edward
Lear associated with?
a. Nature
b. Epics
c. Sonnets
d. Nonsense
19. . In coleridge's poem 'The rime
of the Ancient Mariner'where were
the 3 gallants going?
a. A funeral
b. A marriage
c. Market
d. To the races
20. Harold Nicholson defined
which poet as 'Very yellow and
glum. Perfect manners'?
a. e. e. Cummings
b. T. S. Elliot
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
21. What was strange about Emily
Dickinson?
a. She rarely left home
b. She wrote in code
c. She never attempted to publish her
poetry
d. She wrote her poems in invisible ink
22. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry
during which conflict?
a. Boer War
b. 2nd World War
c. Korean War
d. 1st World War
23. Which Poet Laureatewrote about
a church mouse?
a. Betjeman
b. Hughes
c. Marvel
d. Larkin
24. Which American author
published 'A brave and startling
truth' in 1996
a. Robert Hass
b. Jessica Hagdorn
c. Maya Angelou
d. Micheal Palmer
25. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle
of Innisfree'?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Ezra Pound
c. W. B. Yeats
d. e. e. cummings
26. Carl Sandburg 'Planked
whitefish' contains what type of
imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
27. Which influential American poet
was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
28. In 1960 'The Colossus' was the
first book of poems published by
which poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson

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