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Which statement best describes the main idea of the third paragraph of “How We Entered World War I”?

According to “Make it New”: Early Modernism, why was Ezra Pound so influential to the twentieth-century poetry revolution?

Read the excerpt from “Mending Wall,” by Robert Frost.

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

What is Frost describing that “doesn’t love a wall”?

Read the final paragraph of “How We Entered World War I.”

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed. America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

That screen, too, must fall.

Which best explains the purpose of repeating the word “illusion” in the paragraph?

There are many time references in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;

And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,

What is the most likely reason for Prufrock’s emphasis on the afternoon and evening hours?

“Oread” reflects imagist poetry because it contains

Read the lines from “Oread.”

Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,

The repetition of the word “whirl” creates a sense of

In “Wilson’s War Message to Congress” the word “extraordinary” is repeated in order to

Read the quotation from “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.”

Go in fear of abstractions. Don’t retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose. Don’t think any intelligent person is going to be deceived when you try to shirk all the difficulties of the unspeakably difficult art of good prose by chopping your composition into line lengths.

How is the idea expressed in the quotation consistent with the objectives of imagist poets?

Read the excerpt from “Mending Wall.”

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself.

What is the speaker’s mood in this excerpt?

If I thought my reply were to someone who could ever return to the world, this flame would waver no more. But since, I’m told, nobody ever escapes from this pit, I’ll tell you without fear of ill fame.

What is the best explanation for prefacing the poem with this quotation?

We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;

And seeing that it was a soft October night,
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,

What is the most likely reason for Prufrock’s emphasis on the afternoon and evening hours?

T. S. Eliot begins “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” with a translated quotation from Dante’s Inferno.

If I thought my reply were to someone who could ever return to the world, this flame would waver no more. But since, I’m told, nobody ever escapes from this pit, I’ll tell you without fear of ill fame.

What is the best explanation for prefacing the poem with this quotation?