Modernist Poetry

Who challenged modern poets to "make it new"?

• Ezra Pound

• e. e. cummings

• Robert Frost

• William Carlos Williams

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Which poem describes a single visual image that is "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens"?

• "Red Wheelbarrow"

• "I, Too"

• "Birches"

• "Stopping by the Woods"

In which poem is the speaker attracted by woods but can only enjoy it for a few minutes before continuing on his journey?

• "Mending Wall"

• "Stopping by the Woods"

• "In the Station of the Metro"

• "Red Wheelbarrow"

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In this poem, the speaker suggests that "Good fences make good neighbors"

• "Birches"

• "Mending Wall"

• "This is Just to Say"

• "anyone who lived in a pretty how town"

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This poem discusses the speaker's desire to be a youth again as he ponders the reason why the trees are bowed.

• "Mending Wall"

• "Birches"

• "Red Wheelbarrow"

• "White Houses"

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In this poem, the speaker is apologizing for eating plums that he finds in the icebox.

• "My City"

• "This is Just to Say"

• "Stopping by the Woods"

• "Any Human to Another"

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In this poem, the speaker suggests that we should share each others suffering.

• "anyone who lived in a pretty how town"

• "I, Too"

• "Any Human to Another"

• "Stopping by the Woods"

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This poem describes how the speaker will miss the city life in Manhattan when he dies.

• "My City"

• "anyone who lived in a pretty how town"

• "Birches"

• "Mending Wall"

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This poem is in response to a poem by Walt Whitman.

• "I, Too"

• "Red Wheelbarrow"

• "My City"

• "Birches"

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This poem describes the faces of people travelling in a train car.

• "Birches"

• "Any Human to Another"

• "In the Station of a Metro"

• "My City"