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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 advises that the hard work put in on the first poem is responsible for the _____ of the second.
2. What era does Hugo say embodies sentimentality?
3. Hugo sits home on Saturday nights _____ in one assumption.
4. One assumption says that the churches are always _____.
5. Hugo maintains that once the poet has a certain amount of _____, one can forget it in the act of writing.
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the function of assumptions in the triggering town.
2. In the poem "At Stillit's Mouth", what does Hugo say about his own sense of the dramatic?
3. Why does Hugo suggest that the triggering town be unfamiliar?
4. In what way does Hugo feel that young poets find it difficult to free themselves from the initiating subject of a poem?
5. Why does Hugo say that Roethke thinks that young chicks are the best students?
6. What is Buzz Green's description of Lou Garrity's trombone playing and how does it relate to Hugo's idea of writing poetry?
7. What happens to Hugo when he lives in New York in one assumption?
8. What are the reasons Hugo gives when he agrees with Auden's view that poets don't take things as seriously as other people do?
9. According to Hugo, what can happen to facts when writing a poem?
10. How does Roethke read a poem, and what does Hugo say is the effect it has on students?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Hugo's experience in the grassy field near Spinazzola? How does a psychoanalyst categorize his experience years later? What is the poem that he writes about Spinazzola about?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What does Hugo feel is the role of competition in being a poetry writer? Who does he know that is competitive about it? What is the effect Hugo sees as a result of being competitive?
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