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MEN, WOMEN AND GHOSTS.

by Amy Lowell.

Ten questions on craft, meaning, and form. Untimed. Answer every question to submit.

Q01of 10

In her Preface, Lowell identifies which composer's piano pieces as first revealing to her 'the close kinship of music and poetry'?

Q02of 10

Lowell describes 'polyphonic prose' as a form whose name contains the word 'prose' for what specific reason?

Q03of 10

What structural technique does Lowell use in 'The Cremona Violin' to heighten the contrast between narrative passages and the sections depicting violin playing?

Q04of 10

Which section of the collection most directly engages, according to Lowell, with the subject of the Napoleonic Era?

Q05of 10

The epigraph from William Blake's 'Europe. A Prophecy' features a speaker who catches a fairy doing what?

Q06of 10

In the Preface, Lowell credits a specific poem by John Gould Fletcher as turning her toward the 'unrelated' pictorial method. Where was that poem published?

Q07of 10

The poem 'A Roxbury Garden' is cited in the Preface primarily as an example of which poetic technique?

Q08of 10

What is the dominant tone of Amy Lowell's Preface to this collection?

Q09of 10

Lowell's collection excludes a specific category of poems. Which type did she deliberately leave out?

Q10of 10

The second Blake epigraph—'Thou hast a lap full of seed / And this is a fine country'—most likely functions in this context to suggest which theme?

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