STUDY POWERPOINT for AMERICAN MODERN LITERATURE CLASS
Eliot is important for his literary
criticism as well as his writing.
God refrains from calling his
creation good until after he creates man.
“The Creation” employs
personification.
God made the sun by rolling light up into a
ball.
Sandburg presents a
positive picture of “Chicago.”
The beginning and ending of
“Chicago” repeat thus lending unity
to the poem.
Williams attempted to present actual
American speech in his verse.
“In the Station of the Metro” is an imagist poem.
Ezra Pound’s poetry had little
or no influence on other poets.
The word apparition in his
poem has several meanings.
After Auden’s move to the United
States his thoughts became primarily
religious.
Millay is considered to be the master of
the sonnet.
After graduation from college Millay
adopted a bohemian lifestyle.
Millay didn’t begin writing poetry until
her later years.
The speaker in “Dolor” hates the
lack of order in public institutions.
Roethke was awarded multiple
prizes for his poetry.
Roethke hated people who imitate
other authors.
Ransom fought for an industrialized
South.
Ransom founded the Kenyon Review.
Frost’s poetry is primarily
concerned with nature.
Frost’s poetry is primarily
concerned with nature.
According to “The Creation,” why did
God make the world?
What is significant about “alien people
clutching their gods” in “Journey
of the Magi?”
How do the Magi spend the night because of inn
situations?
What does the headline, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-
g-rmean when it says the
reader must be a grasshopper himself?
In “somewhere i have never travelled,” what contrasting actions does the author say his beloved can make him
do?
What figurative expression does Chicago employ as a
whole?
Between coming and moving on, what other
actions does the fog employ?
“Fog” compares fog to what?
Williams believed that meaning could only be
found in what?
Williams believed that meaning could only be
found in what?
In “The Station of the Metro” what is the Metro?
Pound is a major force behind what movement?
What is the object of satire in “The Unknown Citizen?”
In Sonnet XXVI what is the focus of the end of the
poem?
“Dolor” refers to the endless duplication of what two
things?
What poem first brought Millay national attention?
What poem first brought Millay national attention?
What color characterizes the product of the environment
described in Dolor?
What aspect of Roethke’s background influenced the
setting for his poem, “Dolor?”
What is another name for the Southern Agrarians, the
group Ransom led at Vanderbilt University?
In “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” why can’t the author stay too
long?
What is the source of the speaker’s disappointment in
“The Road Not Taken?”
What does the last stanza of “Miniver Cheevy” reveal
about his wasted life?
From what activity does Miniver Cheevy have to
rest?
From what activity does Miniver Cheevy have to
rest?
What influences hinder spiritual interest in “The Journey of the Magi?”
In “The Journey of the Magi,” what do the three
trees symbolize?
Be sure to study all of the Poet questions on your
study sheet. They will each be multiple choice
questions.
According to “The Creation,” what causes light to come
forth?
In order to understand the grasshopper poem, what
must be ignored?
“somewhere i have never travelled” features what
central metaphor?
What is the main focus in “somewhere i have never
travelled?”
What does “Chicago” compare the city to?
What is the tone of “Chicago” in the last stanza?
In “Chicago” word choices seem to emphasize ___.
How are “Poem” and “Red Wheelbarrow” similar?
“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” seems to focus
on what comparison?
“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” presents
information from whose perspective?
In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” repetition
in the last two lines emphasizes what?
In “Stopping by Woods on aSnowy Evening,” the
speaker stops to do what?
In “The Road Not Taken,” why does the speaker
pause?
Why is Miniver Cheevy’s love for the Medici ironic?
In “Miniver Cheevy” who thinks of Miniver as child of
scorn?
What word best describes Miniver Cheevy?
ESSAY: Choose one poem that we have read and
either compare or contrast it with a biblical view of the topic using three examples.