Mrs. Dalloway
What is Clarissa Dalloway planning?
A party.
What is "In a Station of the Metro" about?
People getting on a subway-- images of industrialism contrasted against momentary beauty.
In "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy is attending a party organized by whom?
His two aunts, Kate and Julia Morkan.
What are some major themes of Hard Times?
Mechanization, rationality, imagination, class division, industrialism.
Who is speaking in Webster's "A Castaway?"
A Victorian woman driven to prostitution.
What type of writing style characterizes Mrs. Dalloway?
Stream-of-consciousness.
What famous T. S. Eliot poem starts with the line "April is the cruellest month"?
The Waste Land.
What year did Joyce publish Ulysses?
1922.
Where is Kafiristan?
It is a remote part of Afghanistan. Relatively unknown, as evidenced by the maps used by Dravot and Carnehan.
What is the Duke of Ferrara examining in "My Last Duchess"?
He is looking over a portrait of his deceased wife.
What is Clarissa Dalloway shopping for at the beginning of the novel?
Flowers.
Where was T. S. Eliot born? HINT: He's not British.
St. Louis, Missouri.
What is "Easter, 1916" about?
The Easter Rising. Irish scholars and poets took over a post office as a show of rebellion. Most leaders were killed, and this event marks an important moment in Irish history.
What did Dravot disguise himself as in "The Man Who Would Be King"?
A priest.
In "Porphyria's Lover," what does the narrator do to Porphyria?
He strangles her with her own hair.
Who is Septimus Warren Smith?
A veteran suffering from PTSD. He is the other protagonist of the novel.
What was T. S. Eliot's major poem published in 1922?
The Waste Land.
What is Joyce's famous collection of short stories published in 1914?
The Dubliners.
Who was Thomas Carlyle?
A Scottish essayist who was a fierce opponent of industrialism and mechanization.
What ancient epic is Webster referencing in her poem "Circe"?
The Odyssey.
What literary group was Virginia Woolf a member of?
The Bloomsbury Group.
Besides poetry, Ezra Pound is also famous for his harmful political takes. Which famous dictator did he openly support?
Benito Mussolini.
What was one of Yeats's early poems? (We only read one super early one)
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
What does Daniel Dravot smuggle in his bag to help him rule Kafiristan?
Rifles.
The New Woman.