GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of American Poetry
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Example Question #21 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Which of the following is the title of another collection by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
An Octopus
Marriage
Mad Girl’s Love Song
Questions of Travel
Tulips
Questions of Travel
Published in 1965, Questions of Travel reflects Bishop’s residence in Brazil and journeys in South America. The rest of the titles are individual poems by Sylvia Plath and Marianne Moore.
Example Question #22 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Frank O’Hara
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Bishop
Amy Lowell
Sylvia Plath
Elizabeth Bishop
Inspired by a newspaper misprint, “The Man-Moth” (1946) is a poem by the U.S. Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Sylvia's Lovers (1863), Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar (1963), Amy Lowell wrote Ballads for Sale (1927), and Frank O’Hara wrote Oranges: 12 pastorals (1953).
Example Question #23 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Which of the following is the title of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Brotherhood
Last Dawn
Between Going and Coming
As One Listens to the Rain
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring is Bishop’s 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. The rest are the titles of individual poems by Octavio Paz.
Example Question #24 : Contexts Of American Poetry After 1925
Which of the following poets was a major influence on the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Mary Dudley
Marianne Moore
Mary Shelley
Marilyn Robinson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore, whom Bishop met as a student at Vassar, was a mentor and friend to Bishop. Critics observe distinct similarities in the two poets’ oeuvres.
Mary Shelley was a 19th-century novelist, Mary Wollstonecraft was a 19th-century essayist and seminal feminist thinker, Marilyn Robinson is a 20th-century novelist, and Mary Dudley was not a writer, but was rather a confidante of Queen Elizabeth I.
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