Twentieth Century Exam

Question 1

When did the Irish Renaissance happen?

Answer 1

1180 in England
Reformation 1900 Irish Renaissance

Question 2

Who wrote The Darkling Thrush?

Answer 2

Thomas Hardy

Question 3

Who wrote Hap?

Answer 3

Thomas Hardy

Question 4

What is Hap about?

Answer 4

Nothing you do will make a difference, it is just fate. Gloomy way of seeing life.

Question 5

What is The Darkling Thrush?

Answer 5

Pessimism and balancing hope
So much boom!!!
Everything relating to death

Question 6

Who wrote the Convergence of the Twain?

Answer 6

Thomas Hardy

Question 7

What is the Convergence of the Twain about?

Answer 7

Coming together of two things - ocean liner and the iceberg
About the titanic!
We should have never thought the Titanic greater than Nature

Question 8

Who wrote Anthem for Doomed Youth?

Answer 8

Wilfred Owen

Question 9

What is Anthem for Doomed Youth about?

Answer 9

Represents something
Sign someone in family has died
About how kids are doomed when they go to war

Question 10

Who wrote Dulce Et Decorum Est?

Answer 10

Wilfred Owen

Question 11

What is Dulce Et Decorum Est about?

Answer 11

Nobel men with a strong willing
Charge - going into valley of death for their country
Dulce - struggling, exhausted, and fatigued soldiers

Question 12

Who wrote Easter?

Answer 12

William Yeats

Question 13

What is Easter about?

Answer 13

Irish revolt against the British
Stone is terrible beauty (death of the Irish rebellion)

Question 14

Who wrote The Second Coming?

Answer 14

William Yeats

Question 15

What is the second coming about?

Answer 15

Christianity
Is the next thing to be good or bad?
The gyre (spinning circle) Jesus coming is the next best thing

Question 16

Who wrote Leda and the Swan?

Answer 16

William Yeats

Question 17

What is Leda and the Swan?

Answer 17

Zeus in swan form rapes Leda a mortal
Do we know the consequences for our actions?
Destruction of Troy

Question 18

Who wrote Araby?

Answer 18

James Joyce

Question 19

What is Araby about?

Answer 19

About his life
Fool to begin with
Small step way from Beautiful to Beauty (abstract)

Question 20

Who wrote the Dead?

Answer 20

James Joyce

Question 21

What is The Dead?

Answer 21

Party after Christmas (talent show)
Gabriel Conroy - the favorite nephew
He believes he’s smarter than everyone
Gabriel is Joyce!!
Last image we get is of a graveyard
Title and last words = The Dead

Question 22

Who wrote Ulysses?

Answer 22

James Joyce

Question 23

What is Ulysses about?

Answer 23

Mrs. Dalloway on steroids
Being a housewife

Question 24

Who wrote the Wasteland?

Answer 24

After World War One
Looking for happiness finding lust not love, don’t know what kind of people they are anymore
Even though everything is destroyed and things seem bad now, things will get better we need to change our way of thinking like Boodan

Question 25

Who wrote Musee des Beaux Arts?

Answer 25

W. H. Auden

Question 26

What is Musee des Beaux Arts about?

Answer 26

People in Europe are looking away Icarus is the things happening in Europe We aren’t looking where we need to be looking

Question 27

Who wrote September 1, 1939?

Answer 27

W. H. Auden

Question 28

What is September 1, 1939 about?

Answer 28

First day of WWII He would like to be the one to help Icarus Call to Action!!!

Question 29

Who wrote Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?

Answer 29

Dylan Thomas

Question 30

What is Do Not Go Into That Good Night?

Answer 30

Mortality based A lot of emotion Wants some kind of emotion or conversation from his father to get him to not want to die

Question 31

Who wrote Audabe?

Answer 31

Philip Larkin

Question 32

What is Aubade about?

Answer 32

Death exists. Face it.

Question 33

Who wrote Omeros?

Answer 33

Derek Walcott

Question 34

What is Omeros about?

Answer 34

History of his people Philoctete - represents all African Americans suffering He is reborn starting over in the beginning like in genesis

Question 35

Who wrote Digging?

Answer 35

Seamus Heaney

Question 36

What is Digging about?

Answer 36

Getting things out of the way to get to something else Symbol: shovel Tiny glimpse of his life The Gun is concrete thing that connects them Digging in a different way than his father and grandfather

Question 37

Who wrote The Braudballe Man?

Answer 37

Seamus Heaney

Question 38

What is The Grauballe Man about?

Answer 38

Well preserved man in a bog Doesn’t look like a dead person Fight between England and Ireland Grauballe Man stands in for what happened to these who were living and died in the violence