WALT WHITMAN

1. Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s 0 Captain! My Captain!?

1. R. W. Emerson

 2. John Keats

 3. P. B. Shelley

4. Abraham Lincoln

ANSWER:4

2. Allen Ginsberg’s vision of America is inspired by :

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Robert Frost

 (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(D) Edgar A. Poe

ANSWER:A

3. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman’s :

 (A) Paumonak

 (B) Passage to India

(C) O Captain, My Captain

(D) Song of Myself

ANSWER:D

4. “Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above lines are from…

 (A) Walt Whitman

 (B) Edgar Allan Poe

 (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

 (D) John Greenleaf Whittier

ANSWER:A

5. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?

(A) Robert Lowell

(B) Walt Whitman

(C) Wallace Stevens

 (D) Langston Hughes

ANSWER:B

6. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet,

(1) Anne Bradstreet

(2) Robert Lowell

 (3) Walt Whitman

(4) Sylvia Plath

ANSWER:3

7. Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s 0 Captain! My Captain!?

1. R. W. Emerson

 2. John Keats

 3. P. B. Shelley

4. Abraham Lincoln

ANSWER:4

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