Like the candy theme?  Think of this as brain candy, then...

What poets found his or her muse in:

  1. An Irish revolutionary actress?
  2. His dead wife?
  3. His own youth?
  4. World War One (obviously more than one answer here)?
  5. A vernacular language?
  6. The Bloomsbury Group, her friends?
  7. What is an "occasional poem"?  Who is perhaps the greatest writer of these during the last century?
  8. What is the "Celtic Twilight"?
  9. What's the difference between "modern" and "modernist"?
  10. Why is "The Darkling Thrush" an important poem?
  11. Yeats is influenced by the American Transcendentalists in some of his early poems.  What, in particular, did they give him thematically?
  12. Who's Fergus?
  13. Who's Leda?
  14. Differentiate between Owen, Rosenberg, and Sassoon.
  15. Who's Tiresias?
  16. Who's The Young Man Carbuncular?
  17. Who's Lil?
  18. Who's Proteus?
  19. Who's Buck Mulligan?
  20. Who's "Kinch" and what's the name mean?
  21. What's a "bonnie broukit bairn"?
  22. MacDiarmid enacted what two revolutions in/for Scottish poetry?
  23. What is an "annus mirabilis"? 
  24. What's the "annus mirabilis" for Modernism?
  25. What figure is Stephen linked to throughout "Proteus"?  Elaborate the various ways that that comparison plays out.
  26. What is the technical term for the form in which "Proteus" is written?
  27. How many languages does Joyce use in "Proteus," and why?
  28. State what "The Waste Land" is about in one sentence. 
  29. How do you understand the end of "The Waste Land":  possibility or irony?  Why?
  30. I've put a mess of things under the title "modernism":  how do they fit together?   That is, what things might they be said to have in common?
  31. What's "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" mean?
  32. What's "semper ubi sub ubi mean"?
  33. What are the "Poems of 1912-13"?
  34. What major literary figure ought to be in this class, but isn't?
  35. Myth is important to Yeats, Eliot and Joyce.  Do they use it the same way?
  36. Name the Nobel Prize for Literature authors we've read so far.
  37. Review "The Legacy."  What two social themes underlie the narrative Gilbert Clandon. 
  38. Yeats began his career writing post-romantic poetry, often about Celtic mythology; what were the themes of his late years?
  39. Up until this point in the semester, London has been the literary center of things.  Name some of the writers who were purposefully marginal to this center, and think about why this might be.
  40. Remember that there will be a section of identification on the exam.   This mean that you ought to review everything we've read -- and read the things you didn't get to the first time around.
  41. What is the "ineluctable modality of the visible"?
  42. What's a villanelle?
  43. What's an aubade?

    BIOGRAPHIES:
  44. Who married around age fifty -- and got great?
  45. Who committed suicide, after years of depression, by walking into a river?
  46. Who first published Ulysses in the United Kingdom?
  47. What World War One poet was a friend of Robert Frost?
  48. What poet once listed "Anglophobia" as a hobby?
  49. What writer started out as a feted novelist only to turn to poetry when the critics reviled his last novel?
  50. Which war poets (either one) died in the war?  Which survived?
  51. Who started out as a minor bank officer and then became a chief editor at the publishers Faber and Faber?
  52. Which great Irish author did most of their work outside of Ireland?  (Bonus points if you know where he did it.)
  53. According to your understanding of their lives, which author's biography had the most direct influence upon his or her art?
  54. I think 53 ought to do, don't you?

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