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Monday, June 10, 2013

Poetry Study Questions

The exam will be open-text.

1.      Please discuss how T.S.Eliot deals with the themes of time, consciousness and history in Four Quartets?
2.      Discuss how Emily Dickinson incorporates the theme of death into her poems? How does her understanding of death differ from that of the transcendentalists?
3.      Focusing on the article “Modernism, Fascism, and the Composition of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos” by Ronald Bush, discuss how the social and political events of the period are reflected in “Pisan Cantos”?
   4.How does Anne Carson make sleep both an entrance and an exit?  Answer the question by examining her view on sleep?

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