1) Title “The Waste Land” of T.S. Eliot’s poem refers to which culture or civilization?

• Title “The Waste Land” of T.S. Eliot’s poem refers to which culture or civilization? (1 point)
• What is the central trope (metaphor) of Cantos 116? Find the phrase from the poem and type it below. (1 point)
• Give two concrete examples of this trope in the poem? Write out them out. (2 points)
• Pound in Canto 81 states “What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee.” What two things is he referring to? List them. (2 points)
• What are the four main symptoms/consequences of modernity according to the first section of Eliot’s “The Waster Land.” LIST them. (4 points)
• If for Pound “light” stands for knowledge, hope, vision, what does “light” stand for Eliot in the line “Looking into the heart of light, the silence”? List at least 2 “correct” nouns you can think of. (2 points)
• What poetic technique is Eliot using when he writes the line ““You who were with me in the ships of Mylae!””? List. (1 point)
• Eliot’s lines

Oh keep the Dog far hence, that’s friend to men,

Or with his nails he’ll dig it up again!

refer to what Mankind’s or civilization’s propensity that it seems unable to control? List. (1 point)

• What does “red rock” in the lines

There is shadow under this red rock,

(Come in under the shadow of this red rock).

alludes to? List. (1 point)

• The presence of “Marie” and “arch-duke” in the first stanza of “The Waste Land” indicate that the main subject of the first stanza is? [Write a sentence or phrase in your response]. (1 point)

• If you were asked to replace the title of Jeffers’ poem “Ave Caesar” with a sentence, what would you write. [1 sentence] (1 point)
• Paraphrase the following line from Jeffers’ “Ave Caesar” : “Poverty and Carthage off until the Romans arrive.” [Hint: another line that says the same thing: “Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar” ALSO, question 11 and 12 are linked] (1 point)
• Who is the spoiler in the poem “Carmel Point”? [1 or 2 sentences] (1 point)
• What does Jeffers mean by the word enskyment in the line from the poem “Vulture”: “What a sublime end of one’s body, what an enskyment; what a life after death.” [2 to 3 sentences] (3 points)
• Jeffers does not provide a solution to the problem confronting humanity: “inevitable mass-disasters.” Which line in the poem “The Purse-Seine” however provides solace to the reader? Write out the line below. (1 point)