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In “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston interprets her move from Eatonville to Jacksonville as a personal transformation: from “Zora of Orange County” to …

Where did the idea of “double consciousness” first come into play?

Most of Frost’s poetry (which is represented by the poems by Frost read in this course) …

The following describes which of the following poets: The austere and tragic view of life that emerges in so many of his poems is modulated by his metaphysical use of detail. As he portrays him, man might be alone in an ultimately indifferent universe, but he may nevertheless look to the natural world for metaphors of his own condition. Thus, in his search for meaning in the modern world, he focuses on those moments when the seen and the unseen, the tangible and the spiritual intersect. John T. Napier calls this poet’s ability “to find the ordinary a matrix for the extraordinary.” In this respect, he is often compared with Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson, in whose poetry, too, a simple fact, object, person, or event will be transfigured and take on greater mystery or significance.  Yet, just as he is aware of the distances between one man and another, so he is also always aware of the distinction, the ultimate separateness, of nature and man. What he finds in nature is sensuous pleasure; he is also sensitive to the earth’s fertility and to man’s relationship to the soil. Critics frequently point out that he complicated his problem and enriched his style by setting traditional meters against the natural rhythms of speech. Drawing his language primarily from the vernacular, he avoided artificial poetic diction by employing the accent of a soft-spoken, conversational tone of a  New Englander. His use of New England dialect is only one aspect of his often discussed regionalism in his poetry. 

Based on the poems by Frost read in this course, Robert Frost believed that the poet’s response to the modern life was to … 

In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in what sense did ‘Jane’ keep the narrator trapped in The Yellow Wallpaper?

The following characteristics can be attributed to which of the following literary movements?  • focuses on the special characteristics of a certain geographical area and its people • writers strive to capture the speech, dress, common beliefs, and social interactions of a given locale • writers sought to record, celebrate, and mythologize diversity of landscape and people • writers use careful detail to re-create the physical features of landscapes and towns and the often colorful characters who inhabit them

Which of the following authors was not entirely popular with the male intellectual leaders of the Harlem community and rejected the idea that a black writer’s chief concern should be how blacks were being portrayed to the white reader. 

In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” is the speaker happy with the decision he’s made? 

The inclusion of which fictional character in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”  suggests that we should be suspicious of Prufrock?