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30 Cards in this Set
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What movement did Ezra Pound "create"?
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Imagism
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What was the Imagist movement in response to?
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Romanticism
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What are the characteristics of Imagism?
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precise imagery, economic language and concrete details
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Who wrote "The River Merchant's wife: A Letter" originally?
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Li Po
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What was Li Po's Japanese name?
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Rihaku
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What is the central theme of "The River Merchant's Wife"?
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Maturing love
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How is the last stanza of "The River Merchant's Wife" different from the previous stanzas?
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There is no indication of age
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About what are the images in the first stanza in "The River Merchant's Wife"?
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childhood play
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Why was Ezra Pound imprisoned?
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For making Anti-American radio broadcasts while in Italy
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Aside from translating Chinese poetry who's work did Pound also translate?
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Sophacles
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Who called Pound "Il miglior fabro" [the better craftsman]?
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T.S. Elliot
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What work was Pound's "Cantos" similar to?
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Homer's epic "The Odyssey"
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In what meter is Pound's "River Merchant's Wife" written?
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free verse
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Who was Kublai Khan?
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A Mongol invader of China that established the Yuan dynasty
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What was Coleridge reading when he fell asleep that influenced him to write "Kublai Khan"?
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Purcha's Pilgrimage. a collection of travel literature
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To what movement did Coleridge belong?
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The Romantics
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What were characteristics of the Romantics?
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imaginative, subjective, emotional, nature and wilderness-not society, focused on exotic places and were mysterious
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Who were some famous Romantic writers?
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Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, amd William Blake
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How does "Kublai Khan" exemplify a Romantic work?
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the theme and setting is exotic
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With which work did Coleridge establish credibility as a critic and essayist?
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Biographica Literaria 1817
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Why did Coleridge use Laudanum, an opiate?
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he had severe pain from his rheumatic gout
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What was Coleridge doing between 1812 and 1813?
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he was giving lectures on Shakespeare
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In which genre did Coleridge NOT write: journalism, poetry, short fiction, drama or literary criticism?
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short fiction
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What is the underlying theme of "Kublai Khan"?
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The poetic process
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What does the "Abyssian Maid" represent in "Kublai Khan"?
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A poetic muse
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TRUE OR FALSE?
When Coleridge awoke from his Laudanum induced slumber, he believed he had already written 300 lines of poetry. |
TRUE
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What is the dominant image in the second stanza of "Kublai Khan"?
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that of an exploding fountain
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What are characteristics of the Menglongshi poets?
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ambiguous images, feelings of alienation, yearn for freedom, crisize the government, individualism and self expression
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What are characteristics of the Newborn Generation?
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less obscure images than Menglongshi, wrote about dispossession, creative freedom, quest for identity and exploration of the human psyche
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What was the position of women in poetry in China?
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they could generally only write about accepted themes like domestic life
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