ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MODERN POETRY AND POETICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following poets wrote about World War II?
A
Rupert Brooke
B
Rudyard Kipling
C
Karl Shapiro
D
Hart Crane
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Other British poets who wrote about their experience of active service in the war include Sidney Keyes, Norman Cameron, Roy Fuller, Charles Causley and FT Prince. The nature of the war was such, however, that it affected civilians and soldiers, and women as well as men, in equal measure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

Detailed explanation-3: -High Flight by John Gillespie Magee His best-known poem, High Flight, is an intensely metaphoric ode to the joys of piloting, describing the almost spiritual feeling of drifting above the clouds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kingsley Amis. Jack Beeching. Christine Brooke-Rose. Basil Bunting. Keith Douglas. Lawrence Durrell. Gavin Ewart. Roy Fuller. More items

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