Literature (Poems)

Question 1

Litany in Time of a Plague was written by who?

Answer 1

Thomas Nashe

Question 2

Litany means what?

Answer 2

A short prayer

Question 3

Nazim Hikmet and Choman Hardi would get along in what terms?

Answer 3

In prison life

Question 4

What did the duke do to his last duchess?

Answer 4

He sent out orders to kill her

Question 5

Why was the duchess killed?

Answer 5

Because she didn’t give special attention to the Duke’s lineage

Question 6

What inspired the stolen child by W.B. Yeats

Answer 6

It was inspired by celtics, and irish folklore. It also came from the poet’s dissatisfaction of the real world seeing how much in great contrast the place written in the poem is.

Question 7

What was the occupation of the inmate that got killed?

Answer 7

He used to be a royal guard

Question 8

What would the Duke of Ferrara, and Charles Thomas most likely talk about?

Answer 8

Their dead wives

Question 9

Why does the critics give peculiar comments to Alfred Corn?

Answer 9

Because of his poem To a Lover who is HIV-positive

Question 10

Which Refugees did Auden talk about in his poem “Refugee Blues”? What were those refugees doing?

Answer 10

Jews in the time of Hitler, but before his savagery took place. They were seeking refuge and have just arrived in England

Question 11

Why did Boey Kim Cheng dedicated his report to the poet Wordsworth specifically

Answer 11

Wordsworth was a British romanticism and often wrote about the beauty of nature

Question 12

What did Nazim Hikmet write?

Answer 12

Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison

Question 13

Which authors were inspired by Prison Life? (4)

Answer 13

Oscar wilde, Nazim Hikmet, Elizabeth Bishop, Choman Hardi

Question 14

Which authors wrote love poems? (5)

Answer 14

William Shakespeare, W.H. Auden, Robert Browning, Alfred Corn, Tu Fu

Question 15

What inspired Thomas Nashe to write “Litany in Time of a Plague”

Answer 15

He was currently living in the time of the Black Death, and the inevitability of death scared him

Question 16

Who or What was fighting in Sonnet 47?

Answer 16

The poet’s heart and mind

Question 17

Why did Langston Hughes write Justice?

Answer 17

To show how he feels about the unjustly treatment on African-Americans, and how he sees Justice as blind, not because it doesnt judge on appearance, but because it is rendered useless with its blindfolds.

Question 18

Who inspired Elizabeth Bishop to write Visit to St. Elizabeth’s? What happened to him?

Answer 18

Ezra Pound. He avoided treason because he was deemed unfit and so he was set to serve a sentence in a psychiatric hospital ‘St. Elizabeth’s in Washington’ for 2 years. He was sent to jail because he was caught by the American forces, and was guilty of criticizing Roosevelt, America, as. His excuse was that he was paid by Italians, at first he was placed in a 6by6 outdoor cage, but that sent him to a brink of madness.

Question 19

What was Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve time in Prison about?

Answer 19

It is about emotional landscape, and it stated several strategies to survive Prison Life.

Question 20

Which of the 11 survivors inspired Dibs Camp, the Women’s Prison?

Answer 20

Nabat Fayaq Rahman

Question 21

What was also known as the Sadam Hussein regime?

Answer 21

Al-Anfal campaign