Final Exam Study Guide

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Willa Cather, My Antonia

“This was enough for Antonia. She liked me better from that time on, and she never tool a supercilious air with me again. I had killed a big snake- I was now a big fellow”(43).

“If we never arrived, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, I felt, what would be would be”(13).

Edith Wharton, “Souls Belated”

Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“It is a peculiar sensation, this double- consciousness…measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (1376)

Booker T Washington, Up From Slavery

“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress” (1365).

ee cummings, “Buffalo Bill”

“Defunct / who used to / ride a watersmooth silver / stallion / and break onetwothreefour pigeonsjustlike that”

“I would die etcetura bravely of course, my father used to become horse”

John Dos Passos “Body of an American”

“John Doe was born … in Cleveland, Ohio”(2347)

H.D. “The Walls Do Not Fall”

“Still the walls do not fall … we are powerless”

Robert Frost

“If design govern in a thing so small”  Design

“Good Fences make good neighbors” Mending Wall

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces

on starts in stars where no human race is”-Desert Places

William Carlos Williams

“Still the profound change has come upon them:  rooted

They grip down and begin to awaken” Spring and All

“Some doctors family, some Elsie- voluptuous water expressing with broken brain the truth about us” -To Elsie

Wallace Stevens

“The Wilderness rose up to it

and sprawled around no longer wild” The Anecdote of the Jar

“One must have a mind of winter” -The Snow Man

Ernest Hemingway, “The Hills Like White Elephants”

“The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade…Madrid”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”

“He thought rather angrily that this was just money-he had given so many people money”

Nella Larsen, Passing

“Ah! Surely! They were Negro eyes! mysterious and concealing …”

“What happened next, Irene Redfield never afterwards allowed herself to remember. Never clearly”

“One moment Claire had been there, a vital flowing thing, like a flame of red and god the next she was gone”

Langston Hughes

“I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins”-The Negro Speaks of Rivers

“Nobody’ll dare say to me Eat in the kitchen, then besides, they’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-“- I, Too

Claude McKay

“The wine flushed Dancer, bold-eye boys, and even the girls … I know herself was not in that strange place”-The Harlem Dancer

John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego- nothing …”(81)

“Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an then they blow it in. They ain’t got no nobody in the worl’ that gives a half in hell about them”(104)

 

Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge

“He reaches out suddenly .. he kisses her on the mouth … Eddie pins his arms laughing. and suddenly kisses him”(2857)

Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find”

“She would of been a good woman” The Misfit said “If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”

William Faulkner, “Barn Burning”

“He went down the hill … of the late spring night. He did not look back”(2010)

Allen Ginsburg, “Howl”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness / starving hysterical naked”

Gary Snyder, “Riprap”

“These poems, people, lost ponies with dragging sadles”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I Am Waiting”

“South reconstructing itself in its own image”

Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck”

“the thing I came for

the reck and not the story of the wreck

the thing itself and not the myth”

“I came to explore the wreck

the words are purposes

the words are maps”

Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”

“If I’ve killed one I’ve killed two / the vampire who said he was you. Daddy you can lie back now”

Audre Lorde, “Power”

“The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being / is being ready to kill / yourself / instead of your children”

Junot Diaz, from This Is How You Lose Her

“I feel like you rejected my whole country”

“Besides, the average woman can’t learn English”