Chapter 8 Poetry
Complete the sentence with proper words or expressions.
1. The most significant American poem of the 20th century was ( ) by ( ). Its publication helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.
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2. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the ( ) movement. 3. Ezra Pound’s major work of poetry is the long poem called ( ).
4. “After Apple-Picking” is a well known poem written by ( ).
5. ( ), one of Robert Frost’s longest poems, is a very witty and wise anecdotal discussion about the values of life and character.
6. ( ) is a collection of lectures on poetry by Wallace Stevens.
7. For the publication of his Collected Poems, ( ) received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
arial8. ( )’s first book of poetry was 通信与信息管理Prufrock and Other Observations.
9. In 1920, Thomas Stearns Eliot published ( ), containing, among others essays, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, the earliest statement of his aesthetics.
10. In 1922 Thomas Stearns Eliot published his great work ( ), which catches precisely the state of culture and society after the Second World War and graphically illustrates the spiritual poverty of the ( ) of the time. It has been regarded as a central text of modernism.
11. T. S. Eliot in the preface to his book of essays published in 1928 declared himself a “( ) in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion.”
12. In his poem ( ), which is of the same theme of The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawkes men, whose world would end “not with a bang, but a whimper.”
13. T. S. Eliot wrote seven plays, the best of which is ( ), a verse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.
14. ( ) is a group of four long poems, a profound meditation on time and timelessness. This work, above all, led to T. S. Eliot’s receipt of the Nobel Prize.
15. The organizing principle of The Waste Land is the myth of ( ) and ( ), showing the search for ( ) by people who live in a chaotic world.
16. The Waste Land reads like the manifesto of the “Lost Generation.” It consists of ( ) segments, ( ), ( ), ( ), ( ) and ( ).
17. The essence of ( ), which began in Germany in the 1890s, and ended in the ea
rly 1940s, was a break with the past, and it also fostered a belief in art and literature as an avenue to self-fulfillment.
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18. ( ) dramatized discontinuity (a sense of disconjunction) and imminent severance from the past while making determined efforts to use the past, its values and artistic forms by incorporating them in new literary production.
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讨薪19. Modernists had a sense of fragmentation in social communities and the fragmentation within the individual himself. Hence ( ) became a common theme in modernist writing. 20. An ( ) is a person who the modernist writers used in presenting their theme, and he is the person who is the main focus of the work as a hero should be. However, he is weak, ineffective, inapt, not like the romantic hero who is strong, brave, courageous. He achieves success through bungling, through not being as effective as he would think that he could be. anti-hero
世界纪录申请21. The distinctive feature of literary modernism was its strong and conscious ( ) with traditional forms, perceptions, and techniques of expression, and its great concern with ( ) and all aspects of its medium. It is persistently ( ).
22. Modernism displayed its momentum first in the movement of ( ) as a reaction to Victorian and Edwardian poetry.
23. Unlike Victorian poetry which was characteristic of moralizing tendencies, overpadding of extra-poetic matter, and traditional iambic pentameter, imagist poetry stressed free choice of ( ) (often dealing with single, concentrated moments of experience), concreteness of ( ), musical phrases, economy of expression, and the use of a dominant ( ), or a quick succession of related images. It aimed at instantaneous effect, visual and concise.
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