ENGL 228 Canadian Literature Final Exam: Practice Questions Part I Answer Sheet Which poem and by who has oval or circle imagery? - A.M Klein: The Portrait of the Poet as a Landscape What is the moment of pause called in a poem? - volta What was the title of Sinclair Ross memoir? - Just Wind and Horses What is the word for an extended metaphor? - conceit Name one example of a false front in As For Me and My House - Mrs. Bentley and Philip s sexual identity: Philip likes boys and Mrs. Bentley has sexual desires What word derived from ancient greek is used to describe the return home? - nostos Which poem and by what author is seen as corrective to modernism? - David by Earle Birney (brings the lyric eye back to modernism) What are the two types of satire and what are the characteristics of each? - Horation and Juvenallian - Horation is more satirical, absurd, trivial events and expose triviality - Juvenallian is more angry, formal, domineering and harsh combinations of humankind What does pastoral mean? - valorizes rural life What are some characteristics of modern poetry? - tame
- new vs old - progressive What is the difference between Modern, Modernity, and Modernism? - modernity is the era - modern is the sensibility typical of the era - modernism is the aesthetic response to the era What Canadian poet considered himself the Messiah and a friend to the gods? - Irving Layton What are some characteristics of imagism? - direct treatment - rhythmic but not robotic - spare language Name two of Earle Birney s mentors - Al Purdy - Florence McNeil What poem and by what poet is most known to be a model of imagism? - Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro What Canadian poet cultivated the ego of the poet? In what poem specifically do we see this? - Irving Layton, The Birth of Tragedy What poet (not read in class) is known to be a major figure of modernism? - T.S Eliot Which poets are considered the second generation Canadian modernists and what years were they writing? What are some characteristics of the poetry of the second generation Canadian modernists? - Birney, Wilson, Page, Layton - 1939-1957 - World War II - Depression - In order to make modernism new, must make it old again
What does polypoton mean? - the use of the same word but in a different way - ex: strong/strength What group was formed in 1932, what was the primary founding document of the group and what would it be tackling? - The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) - documents: The Regina Manifesto - worker s compensation, healthcare, unemployment insurance, etc. What is the definition of an epic? - quest - hero - supernatural elements - founding of a culture Which poem and by who is an attack on the older Canadian poets? - The Canadian Author s Meet by F.R Scott Who published Anne Marriott s first poem? - J.F.B Livesay Knopf made the cover of the Second Scroll a star of David, and this offended which Canadian poet? - A.M Klein Which poet is known to be misogynistic? - F.R Scott Which poem won the Governor General s Award in 1948 and by who? - The Portrait of the Poet as a Landscape by A.M Klein Which poem and by who makes an allusion to Vladimir Lenin s One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (1904)? - Dorothy Livesay s Lament
What is the division of sound units in poetry? - metrical feet Which famous Canadian modernist poet (not one of the works we read) was institutionalized? - Ezra Pound Name three allusions in David by Earle Birney - Michaelangelo s David (painting) - King David (beloved King of Israel) - David and Goliath (hero) Name some characteristics of the sketch genre - local dialects - doesn t necessarily need beginning, middle or end Which Canadian modernist author didn t begin publishing until twenty five years after the height of modernism? - Ethel Wilson What are some characteristics of surrealism? - humour - juxtaposition - rebellion against convention What is the purpose of the caesura in a poem? - pause or break Which poem is similar to Anne Marriott s The Wind Our Enemy? - T.S Eliot s The Waste Land What are some meanings of the pool as a symbol in Irving Layton s The Bull Calf? - narcissism: allusion to myth of man looking at his own reflection in water and drowns - introspection - time s passage
- stream of consciousness Which era is related to Anne Marriott s The Wind Our Enemy and why? - The Dirty Thirties - huge dust storms, ten year cycles of weather What policy was created in 1928 by Joseph Staline? What did this policy allow? - collectivization - allowed for the governments to take land away from the poor, resulted in starvation of the people and sometimes death What are some characteristics of the modernist long poem? - fragments of history/experience - cultural drought - multivocality - resistance Who wrote the original afterwards of As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross? - Roy Daniells What does pathos mean? - appeal to emotion Who wrote a collection of poems in order to recover Mrs. Bentley from As For Me and My House? What was the title of this collection? - Lorne Crozier: A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley Who wrote a book to try to resurrect Susanna Moodie? What was the title of this book? - Margaret Atwood: The Journals of Susanna Moodie Name the poem and the author in which there is a reference to the gods Apollo and Dionysus. What do Dionysus and Apollo represent? - Irving Layton s The Birth of Tragedy - Apollo: sun god, calm, reason, logic - Dionysus: wine, emotion, consumption, pleasure
Which poets are considered the first generation Canadian modernists and what years were they writing? What are some characteristics of the poetry of the first generation Canadian modernists? - Smith, Scott, Livesay, Klein - 1918-1939 - World War I - Nature - Imagism Which poem by Irving Layton is similar to Lakeshore by F.R Scott? What year was this poem written? - The Swimmer in 1944 What does unheimlich mean? What works that we read in class is it most prominent in? - unhomely - Ethel Wilson s short stories What is the allusion of the name of Mrs. Bentley and Philip s dog in As For Me and My House? - El Greco: artist who depicted the passion of the human body Name two books by P.K Page. Which one won the Governor General s Award in the 1950s? - As Ten As Twenty - The Metal and the Flower which won the Governor General s Award