On Pound's In a Station of the Metro

On Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"

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ModPo quizzes will typically have two purposes. One is to help you comprehend what was discussed in the current week's videos - to help remind you of key concepts and terminology used during the conversation. A second purpose is to encourage you to go further into very close readings of lines and phrases and words - and even punctuation - in the poems. If you have questions about the quiz, or would like to discuss the issues it raises, please post a comment in the discussion forum.

Question 1

In his short Imagist poem "In a Station of the Metro," Ezra Pound uses the word "apparition" to describe the faces in the crowd of the subway. Why is the word "apparition" significant to how we read this poem? From the five options below, choose any or all that seem correct. Select all that apply.

Because the poem explores the way reality can be rendered in words in juxtaposition.

Because the poem is about ghosts.

Because "apparition" makes the image indistinct, which means "In a Station of the Metro" is a poor example of imagism.

Because according to the principles of Imagism, images should be presented indirectly instead of directly.

Because the poem is not just about the visual image but also about how it is perceived: its afterimage or "apparition."

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On Williams's "Between Walls"

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ModPo quizzes will typically have two purposes. One is to help you comprehend what was discussed in the current week's videos - to help remind you of key concepts and terminology used during the conversation. A second purpose is to encourage you to go further into very close readings of lines and phrases and words - and even punctuation - in the poems. If you have questions about the quiz, or would like to discuss the issues it raises, please post a comment in the discussion forum.

Question 1

In his poem "Between Walls," William Carlos Williams calls the reader's attention to "the broken // pieces of a green / bottle." What is the significance of this image for the currents of formal experimentation in the twentieth century? From the four options below, choose any or all that seem correct. Select all that apply.

The bottle is manmade, and modernism emphasizes the manufactured object over the natural one.

Modernist aesthetics is interested in the new, and the "green" of the bottle suggests what is new, as in new growth or something budding from beneath the surface.

In choosing a broken medicine bottle for his poem's central image, Williams emphasizes modernism's interest in health and healing.

Modernist aesthetics privileges what's broken over what's whole, and the bottle is an example of this attitude.

In accordance with the Honor Code, I certify that my answers here are my own work.

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