Modernism
His rags to riches story prompted the component of unwavering faith in progress
Ben Franklin
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A movement centered around Harlem/a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, poetry/prose, etc.
What grave epigraph is placed before the poem starts. ( name it and who it is by)
Dante's Divine Comedy ( or Dante's inferno)
How did Hemingway die?
He committed suicide
Robinson was a loner and was poor, so this person got him a job...
President Roosevelt
Gertrude Stein called this generations the...
lost generation
Hughes' first successful Poem
The Negro Speaks of Rivers ( this is the one Amanda Gorman read and one of her favorite poems)
What is one of T.S. Eliot's writing styles in this poem?
Stream of Consciousness, symbolist, monologue
Where did Younghill Kang sail to with only 4 dollars in his pocket?
San Francisco
What publication did Thurber work for and who was one of his good friends?
The New Yorker, E.B. White
Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired this underpinning of the American Dream
Self Reliance and/or power of the individual
What two images does Hughes juxtapose (place side by side for comparison) in Let America be America Again?
Freedom and Oppression
He was an anglophile, so he became an
English Citizen
What does Kang's character-in East Goes West- state about time?
Time is always there, it is we who pass through the centuries
Name three of Walter Mitty's Dreams
Navy pilot, heroic doctor, defendant in a murder trial, ready to die by a firing squad, in a battle scene as a Captain
What is an antihero?
Since many of the modernists were disillusioned, their heroes lacked courage and often escaped reality
What type of writing style does Gorman use, name a biographical piece of information about her, and what is her viewpoint about poetry's purpose?
contemporary style of spoken-word poetry, often writes Occasional poetry, she spoke at Biden's inauguration. Poetry is political.
I have seen my head upon a platter is an allusion to...
What is Hemingway's writing style?
Minimalist
Why does Walter Mitty dream?
to escape his mundane life, to escape his nagging wife, to become a hero in his dreams in contrast with his boring life.
Name the predominant writing styles of the Modernist era.
Stream of Consciousness and/or Symbolist
What do the last lines of Hughes' poem "Let American Be America Again" suggest?
a) Liberty vs. oppression
b) Freedom vs. oppression
c) Liberty vs. patriotism
b) Freedom vs. oppression
What does the yellow fog symbolize and what is it compared to?
It is compared to a cat ( the movement of it)
It symbolizes a grimy place and cowardliness
Describe Krebs' emotions after WWI by using a quote.
I don't love anybody-he is emotionless due to his experience in war.
Why did Robinson's poems withstand the tide of Modernism?
due to the bedrock realism and irony ( twist endings)