Contexts of World Poetry After 1925

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1

What genre of poem is Omeros?

epic

performance poetry

confessional

elegiac

epistolary

Explanation

Walcott's Omeros (1990) is a contemporary epic, spanning several hundred pages and divided into seven “books” and more than 60 chapters. In this way it echoes its inspiration, The Iliad, which is also an epic poem.

2

When was The Striders published?

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Explanation

The Striders was first published in 1966, making it one of A. K. Ramanujan’s earlier collections. (The poet lived from 1929 to 1993.)

3

What country is the author of The Striders from?

India

Indonesia

Pakistan

Turkey

Afghanistan

Explanation

A. K. Ramanujan is an Indian writer. He was born in Mysuru in the state of Karnataka, India.

The Striders was published in 1966.

4

Who is the author of Omeros?

Derek Walcott

Jamaica Kincaid

Jean Rhys

Aimé Césaire

Kamau Brathwaite

Explanation

This is the St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott, an important post-colonial writer and 1992 Nobel Prize laureate, is the author of Omeros (1990). In addition to poetry, Walcott writes plays and essays and has received an Obie Award, a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and a T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also a painter.

5

The writer of Unattainable Earth was known for several collaborative English translations with which American poet?

Robert Hass

James Wright

Frank O’Hara

Gary Snyder

Robert Lowell

Explanation

Along with poet Robert Pinksy, Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass (1941-present) is known for his translations of Miłosz’s works, including Provinces (1991), Facing the River (1995), The Separate Notebooks (1984), and Road-Side Dog (1997).

6

What country is the author of Autobiography of Red from?

Canada

France

Scotland

Trinidad

Spain

Explanation

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, translator, and nonfiction writer.

The Autobiography of Red was published in 1998.

7

Which of the following poets is not a contemporary of the author of Unattainable Earth?

Jan Kochanowski

Zbigniew Herbert

Wisława Szymborska

Tadeusz Różewicz

Stanisław Barańczak

Explanation

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-2014), and Stanisław Barańczak (1946-2014) were all 20th-century Polish writers. Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) was also a Polish poet, but he lived and wrote during the Renaissance.

8

Which of the following is another work by the author of Autobiography of Red?

Red Doc>

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Last Poems

Aurora Leigh

Casa Guidi Windows

Explanation

Red Doc> (2013)is a 21st-century sequel to Autobiography of Red (1998). The other titles are all by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese was published in 1850, Last Poems was published in 1862, _Aurora Leigh_was published in 1857, and Casa Guidi Windows was published in 1851.

9

Who is the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude?

Octavio Paz

Julio Cortázar

Gabriel García Márquez

José Emilio Pacheco

Laura Esquivel

Explanation

The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)is by the poet Octavio Paz.

Julio Cortázar wrote Hopscotch (1963), Gabriel García Márquez wrote Leaf Storm (1955), José Emilio Pacheco wrote Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems (1978), and Laura Esquivel wrote Like Water for Chocolate (1989).

10

Who is the author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?

Pablo Neruda

Jorge Luis Borges

Gabriel García Márquez

Isabel Allende

Elena Poniatowska

Explanation

This is the Latin American poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Peace Prize. Neruda published Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair in 1924.

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