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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 believes that any _____, no matter how melodramatic, is preferable to none.
2. Hugo feels that true integrity is often willfully equated with _____.
3. What contest do the former students of Hugo, Mike Ryan and Maura Stanton, win?
4. Hugo states that a Snopes poet obviously finds conservatism _____.
5. Which famous poet does Hugo say escapes from personality during the writing of a poem?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Hugo say not to write with a pen?
2. What is the conclusion Hugo makes regarding the Ph.D. system in literature?
3. According to Hugo, why are the poet's feelings about himself influential to his writing?
4. Why does Hugo recommend that the poet carry with him at all times and why?
5. Why does Hugo sometimes feel that he is perverse?
6. How does Hugo describe teaching the student in a class who is not necessarily good at writing?
7. Describe Hugo's analogy of the mask and how it changes as the poet progresses.
8. Why is acclaim considered by Hugo to be dangerous to the poet?
9. Why does Hugo say that Cerignola has a bad reputation in Italy?
10. Describe Pound's relationship to Yeats.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What does Hugo say about communication in writing? What happens if language only exists to convey information? What is the role of "the reader" in a poet's mind when he is writing poetry?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Hugo say that Roethke is a dangerous teacher? How has his teaching influenced the author? How has his teaching influenced David Wagoner?
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