Identification Of American Poetry After 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Identification Of American Poetry After 1925.

This includes poems like Sylvia's Death, We Real Cool, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

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A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, this poet wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Montage of a Dream Deferred.”

Rita Dove Maya Angelou Richard Wright Langston Hughes Amiri Baraka

Which poet was the author of “We Real Cool” and was the first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Nina Simone Gwendolyn Brooks Maya Angelou Langston Hughes Richard Wright

This modernist, imagist poet wrote works including “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “Spring and All.”

Anne Sexton William Carlos Williams John Dos Passos Gertrude Stein Langston Hughes

This expatriate American wrote poems distinguished by their repetition, attention to sound, and ostensible incomprehensibility. This poet"s writing, which includes books such as Tender Buttons and The Making of Americans, often received critical acclaim but not popular attention. Who is the poet?

Anne Sexton Gertrude Stein Langston Hughes Marianne Moore William Carlos Williams

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a famous poem by which author?

Ted Hughes Wallace Stevens Gertrude Stein William Carlos Williams Langston Hughes

The author of the poem "Sylvia"s Death" is __________.

Adrienne Rich Robert Lowell Anne Sexton Ted Hughes Marianne Moore

The author of the poem "We Real Cool" is __________.

Gwendolyn Brooks Langston Hughes Leroi Jones William Carlos Williams Maya Angelou

Which American poet was known for a playful use of language, a lack of standard orthography, a latent transcendentalism, and titles such as “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in” and “anyone lived in a pretty how town”?

Allen Ginsberg e. e. cummings Gertrude Stein William Carlos Williams Adrienne Rich

This American poet was heralded as the leader of the Beats and had his epic poem “Howl” subjected to an obscenity trial in the 1950s.

Allen Ginsberg e. e. cummings William Carlos Williams Adrienne Rich Gertrude Stein

This poet was known for her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar as well as her collection of poetry, Ariel. Some of her best-known poems include “Daddy,” “Lady Lazarus,” and “Mad Girl’s Love Song.” Who is she?

Gwendolyn Brooks Marianne Moore Adrienne Rich Sylvia Plath Gertrude Stein

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Title: Identification Of American Poetry After 1925

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