The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quizzes

The Poetry of Robert Creeley Quiz

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1 What literary movement was Creeley often associated with?

The Transcendentalists

The French Symbolists

The Beats

The Black Mountain Poets
2 What collection gave Creeley his major career breakthrough?

Life and Death

Words

Later

For Love
3 With what poet did Creeley form a close personal and professional relationship?

Charles Olson

T.S. Eliot

Rimbaud

Gary Snyder
4 What word best characterizes Creeley's style?

Straightforward

Decorous

Dense

Harsh
5 What university did Creeley briefly attend before serving in the military?

Yale

Princeton

Harvard

Dartmouth
6 What was a central concept behind all of Creeley's writing?

Form must be an extension of content

All content must be political

Poems must include allusions to other poems

Haiku is the only modern form to write poetry in
7 What poet does Creeley allude to "Heroes"?

Virgil

Basho

Dante

Baudelaire
8 Who introduced Creeley to Charles Olson?

William Carlos Williams

Allen Ginsburg

Michael McClure

Jack Kerouac
9 What topic did Creeley focus on more in his later work?

The seasons of nature

The different phases of life

Sports

The decline of empires
10 What form did Creeley most often write in?

Sonnet

Haiku

Limerick

Free verse
11 What kind of stanzas did Creeley most often use?

Quatrains and tercets

Monostiches and couplets

Octaves and sextets

Couplets and tercets
12 Where were many of Creeley's poems set?

In domestic spaces

In castles

On battlefields

In cities
13 What does the car symbolize in the poem "I Know a Man"?

Technology

Science

Human inventiveness

Materialism
14 Where did Creeley teach for more than thirty years?

State University of New York-Buffalo

Brooklyn College

New York University

Columbia University
15 Which of the following writers was NOT a member of the Black Mountain Poets?

Kenneth Rexroth

Ed Dorn

Hilda Morley

Paul Blackburn
16 What musician did Creeley frequently listen to when he was writing?

Charlie Parker

Curtis Mayfield

Duke Ellington

Chet Baker
17 Which of the following prizes did Creeley receive?

Ruth Lilly

Pultzer

Bollingen

Nobel
18 Which of the following is NOT a recurring theme in Creeley's work?

Love

Loss

Meaning

Science
19 What mythic figure does Creeley refer to in "Heroes"?

Aeneas

Icarus

Agamemnon

Hades
20 Who did Creeley dedicate the poem "For Love" to?

His nephew

His grandmother

His wife

His son
21 Who is the poem "Names" about?

Lauren Bacall

Marilyn Monroe

Humphrey Bogart

Arthur Miller
22 What is the speaker's wife grieving in "The World"?

Moving away from her family

The loss of a dog

The collapse of her marriage

The death of her brother
23 How does the poem "I Know a Man" begin?

During a snowstorm

Before a debate

In the middle of a conversation

After an arguement
24 What is the poem "The Language" about?

Lying

Writer's block

Trying and failing to define love

Trying and failing to make a relationship work
25 What year was Creeley born?

1926

1928

1941

1975

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