Final Exam

Question 1

Ulysess

Answer 1

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wrote it after the death of his best friend
Dramatic Monologue
1) personal loss 2) Victorian commitment to work and progress 3) the spirit of imperialism

Question 2

Without Benefit of Clergy

Answer 2

Rudyard Kipling
Anglo-India: white British people living in and governing India
John Holden’s double life as a bachelor with a secret muslim family. When the family is destroyed so is he and the house. It’s like it never existed.

Question 3

“I saw the sunset ere’ men saw the day”

Answer 3

Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling. He knew and lost love and fatherhood too early in his life.

Question 4

“Who am too wise in all I should not know”

Answer 4

Without Benefit of Clergy by Rudyard Kipling

Because his life crossed religious and racial barriers, he has to keep all his sorrow hidden like nothing happened.

Question 5

“It little profits an idle king”

Answer 5

Ulysess by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 6

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart

Answer 6

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 7

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—

Answer 7

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 8

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Answer 8

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Question 9

Dover Beach

Answer 9

Matthew Arnold
Society is material and corrupt
Look to the past for timeless ideas
The world seems beautiful but without faith it’s sad and dreary and fake

Question 10

“And we are here as on a dark king plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night”

Answer 10

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Question 11

“Ah, Love, let us be true to one another!”

Answer 11

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Question 12

Gods Grandeur

Answer 12

Gerard Hopkins
Opposite attitude of Matthew Arnold
Very religious, argues that no one listens to God anymore.
Written like a tongue twister almost

Question 13

The Soldier

Answer 13

Rupert Brooke
1st published war poet
I am England and England is everything

Question 14

They

Answer 14

Siegfried Sassoon
Opposite of Brooke
Individual pain and value

Question 15

And the Bishop said: ‘The ways of God are strange!

Answer 15

They by Siegfried Sassoon

Question 16

‘On Anti-Christ; their comrades’ blood has bought
‘New right to breed an honourable race,
‘They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.’

Answer 16

They by Siegfried Sassoon

Question 17

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England

Answer 17

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Question 18

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given

Answer 18

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Question 19

What are the five modernist concerns?

Answer 19

1) crisis of subject
2) new theories of meaning
3) opposition to rational and realist discourse
4) deconstruction if boundaries
5) freedom of the literary form

Question 20

Define literary epiphany

Answer 20

Sudden spiritual manifestation which is out of proportion to the trivial occurrence which brought it on.

Question 21

Araby

Answer 21

James Joyce
Energy in youth and death/material possessions from previous generation
Everything seems good on the surface but is tainted ex. The priest
Religion is dying

Question 22

To the Lighthouse

Answer 22

Virginia Woolf
Set pre and post WW1, eulogy to her parents.
Stream of consciousness.

Question 23

September 1, 1939

Answer 23

W.H. Auden

Question 24

The Second Coming

Answer 24

Yeats