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