ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
T. S. Eliot is ____ poet.
A
romantic
B
victorian
C
modern
D
post-modern
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot (1888-1965) is synonymous with modernism. Everything about his poetry bespeaks high modernism: its use of myth to undergird and order atomized modern experience; its collage-like juxtaposition of different voices, traditions, and discourses; and its focus on form as the carrier of meaning.

Detailed explanation-2: -English-language Modernist poets Marion Angus. W. H. Auden. Djuna Barnes. Elizabeth Bishop. Rupert Brooke.

Detailed explanation-3: -In addition to Pound, Flint, H.D. and Aldington, these included work by Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward, John Cournos, D. H. Lawrence and Marianne Moore. With a few exceptions, this represents a roll-call of English-language modernist poets of the time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Major Modern poets of Modern Age The major modern poets who has contributed precisely to modern English literature are W.B Yeats, John Minsfield, Walter Delamare, Wilfred Owen, Gerland Manley Hopkince, T.S Eliot, W.H Auden, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas etc.

Detailed explanation-5: -T.S. Eliot-Father of Modern Poetry.

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