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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Hugo thinks that Roethke is too _____ for his own good.
2. According to Hugo, poets can go into the world of the imagination, and not feel so threatened that they _____.
3. What is the divorce rate in the town in one assumption?
4. Roethke is fond of quoting whose idea of "systematic derangement of the senses"?
5. Who does Hugo put in the silo in one of his poems?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.
2. Why are people suspicious of Hugo in the assumption about couples?
3. Is anybody insane in the triggering town?
4. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?
5. What happens to Hugo when he lives in New York in one assumption?
6. What are some of the ways Hugo suggests moving away from the initiating subject?
7. In the poem "At Stillit's Mouth", what does Hugo say about his own sense of the dramatic?
8. What does Hugo point out are the distinctions between public and private poets?
9. How does Roethke read a poem, and what does Hugo say is the effect it has on students?
10. Why does Hugo suggest that the triggering town be unfamiliar?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Hugo meets a woman who asks for cigarettes in the field outside Canosa, how does he treat her? Why dose he treat her that way? How does he feel about the way he treats her?
Essay Topic 2
What are Hugo's thoughts on having a stance in writing a poem? What examples does he give regarding stance and how does the presence or absence of a stance determine the poem's effectiveness?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Hugo's view of a poet's fear of amoral and shallow writing. When does Hugo say that this kind of writing would occur? What does he say of the moral sense of all the poets he knows personally?
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