LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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A symbol is an image that conveys powerful emotional states.
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A symbol is an emblem of the actual world endowed with supernatural meanings.
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A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.
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A symbol is a description of past realities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -c. A symbol is a metaphor that allows the poet to capture complex social realities.
Detailed explanation-2: -This intellectual movement would in turn influence the arts and give rise to the artistic movement itself. Defining characteristics of Symbolist art include the use of esoteric imagery, suggestion of the senses, religion, mysticism, sin, and love. Common themes include Biblical stories, mythology, and legend.
Detailed explanation-3: -The three major themes of Symbolism-death, mythology, and sex-were developed with the work of early Symbolist artists such as Gustave Moreau and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The principal Symbolist poets include the Frenchmen Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Henri de Régnier, René Ghil, and Gustave Kahn; the Belgians Émile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach; the Greek-born Jean Moréas; and Francis Viélé-Griffin and Stuart Merrill, who were American by birth.
Detailed explanation-5: -A group of late 19th-century French writers, including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.