final exam

Question 1

1860-1880

Answer 1

civil war/ reconstruction era

Question 2

1915-1970

Answer 2

modernism

Question 3

1980s-present

Answer 3

contemporary/ ;iving poets

Question 4

1910s-1920s

Answer 4

imagism

Question 5

1920s-1930s

Answer 5

harlem renaissance

Question 6

1950s-1960s

Answer 6

beat movement

Question 7

1950s-1960s

Answer 7

confessional poetry

Question 8

emily Dickinson

Answer 8

-she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints.
-found botany fascinating and often wrote about it in her poems
-attended Amherst academy for sciences

Question 9

walt Whitman

Answer 9

Whitman’s writing style and subject matter was unnerving.
-he abandoned the regular meter and rhyme patterns” of his contemporaries, -Whitman was “influenced by the long cadences and rhetorical strategies of Biblical poetry.”
-worked as a clerk during the civil war and helped wounded soldiers

Question 10

ars poetica

Answer 10

A poem that explains the “art of poetry,” or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem.

Question 11

What question does literary analysis always need to answer?

Answer 11

how do the authors choiches create meaning

Question 12

what question dose literary analysis answer about theme

Answer 12

what does ythe author whant us to know/understand