Modern Age Poetry Review
Across
- 2. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a dramatic __________________ where Prufrock addresses an unknown listener.
- 7. At the end of "Symbols, I'm sick...," the speaker wishes the seamstress and her boyfriend would be ________________.
- 11. The fog is compared to a ________.
- 12. Modern poems express feelings of __________, or a sense of being left out, an outcast.
- 14. Prufrock says that he is not Prince _________, probably because he is so insecure.
- 15. These events during the 1910s-1940s were a major influence on the authors of this age.
- 18. A word for lawlessness, as described by the speaker in "The Second Coming."
- 19. The body of the beast in "The Second Coming" is a lion to symbolize _____________.
- 20. The Second Coming could refer to the return of ______________, but in this poem, that is not necessarily true.
- 22. The main message of "Symbols, I'm sick..." is that many times, symbols don't really mean _____________.
- 23. The evening Prufrock describes is very ____________.
- 24. What time of day is it when the seamstress heads home in "Symbols, I'm sick..."
- 25. Prufrock imagines that he is sprawling on a ________ like he is a scientific specimen being examined.
- 27. Pessoa's name for the multiple personas he uses in his poems.
- 29. At the end of the poem "Symbols, I'm sick...," the speaker mentions a __________________ who pauses near a corner.
- 32. The speaker in "Symbols, I'm sick..." says that symbols tell him ______________.
- 33. At the end of the poem, Prufrock imagines being surrounded by a bunch of _________________.
- 35. The speaker of "Symbols, I'm Sick..." argues that sometimes _______________ is just pretty and doesn't mean anything.
- 36. At the beginning of "The Second Coming," a falconer is looking for his ________________ who cannot hear him calling.
- 38. Prufrock compares himself to this man, who Jesus awakened from the dead.
- 39. In "Symbols, I'm sick..." the speaker says the woman pauses near that corner because she used to live there with her _______________.
- 40. "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is a stream of ___________________ writing, which is designed to convey exactly what goes through Prufrock's mind.
- 42. In "The Second Coming," a ________________ is what is actually coming.
- 43. The area of town Prufrock is in is a _______ class area.
Down
- 1. Because of the things Yeats references in his poem, it could have been set before WW2, or it could have been set _______.
- 3. The beast in "The Second Coming" has the body of a __________.
- 4. In the room, women come and go, talking about this artist.
- 5. The human part of the beast represents man's _____________.
- 6. Prufrock asks, "Do I _________?"
- 8. The tone of "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
- 9. Prufrock asks himself multiple _______________ and mentions some that he won't state.
- 10. Instead of Hamlet, Prufrock says he is more like Polonius, an attendant who starts a scene but is basically a _________.
- 11. 2 words, Prufrock says he has measured out his life in __________ ___________.
- 13. The tone of "The Second Coming."
- 16. The _________ of the beast is human.
- 17. In "Symbols, I'm sick..." the speaker states that we don't notice the moon but instead its __________.
- 21. According to the speaker of "Symbols, I'm sick...," the ________ is also earth.
- 26. The setting of "The Second Coming" is a non-specific _____________, a barren place that might be the birthplace of a beast.
- 28. "Symbols, I'm sick..." begins with an image of the sun emerging from a cloud after ______________.
- 30. The Spiritus Mundi in "The Second Coming" refers to a collective _________________, or something we all know that connects us all.
- 31. 2 words, Prufrock is awoken from his dream by __________ ___________.
- 34. At the end of his narrative poem, Prufrock says we all __________.
- 37. The tone of "Symbols, I'm sick..."
- 41. a device where an object represents an idea or feeling.