TripWillis

Yes. You rarely see something as thought provoking and formally complex as that, but also so affecting. Leave it to Charlie Kaufman.

I gotta come out and be the one to say I hated White Noise, but it's definitely representative of a "type" of literature I don't like, so I wouldn't let that stop anyone else... I also don't care for Pynchon *ducks people throwing objects* hey! Easy!

I think I answered Seamus Heaney for that question.

You could try every school outside the heartland. Marxist criticism is highly influential pretty much everywhere.

Okay, but you guys gotta keep this secret...

It's almost all Lord of the Rings trivia. Probably about 40% Silmarillion and Hobbit and 60% on LOTR, split between the three books.

Okay, but you guys gotta keep this secret...

It's almost all Lord of the Rings trivia. Probably about 40% Silmarillion and Hobbit and 60% on LOTR, split between the three books.

I would focus on prosody, literary terms, verse forms, stanza forms, etc. and, rather than focusing on identification, focus on reading about 10 well-known poems from each literary period of note in-depth so that you can really familiarize yourself with antiquated language and periodic style. I think if you focus more on style and structure, it will help you. For instance, I was able to nail John Donne and John Milton just by style, even though I'm not super familiar with either of those works. I could just tell it was them.

You could try every school outside the heartland. Marxist criticism is highly influential pretty much everywhere.