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 political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets?
A
Slavery
B
American attitudes toward Jews and Israel
C
Capitalism and social inequalities
D
All of these answers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -American poets write about nature, society, the human condition, religion, and many other topics that encapsulate the human experience.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most essential aspects of Objectivism can be expressed in four basic values: freedom, achievement, individualism, and reason. To understand Objectivism as a system, one needs to grasp what these values are and how they fit together.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, among others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both steered American poetry toward greater density, difficulty, and opacity, with an emphasis on techniques such as fragmentation, ellipsis, allusion, juxtaposition, ironic and shifting personae, and mythic parallelism.

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