Poetry

Question 1

Wordsworth - “delighting…

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to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them”
- Preface to Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800

Question 2

“Go, go, go, said…

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the bird: human kind/ Cannot bear very much reality.” Burnt Norton, TS Eliot

Question 3

“Time past and time future/ What might have been and…

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what has been/ Point to one end, which is always present.” Burnt Norton

Question 4

“Silence touched me…

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here/No less than sound had done before; the child/ Of Summer, lingering, shining, by herself” The Prelude Book 7

Question 5

“Belovèd Friend! The assurance which then…

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cheered some heavy thoughts/ On thy departure to a foreign land/ Has failed; too slowly moves the promised work.” The Prelude

Question 6

“The last night’s genial feeling overflowed/ Upon this morning, and my favourite grove…

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Wakes in me agitations like its own” The Prelude

Question 7

According to TS Eliot, a poet’s significance is

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“the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists”

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“be judged by the standards

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of the past” TS Eliot

Question 9

Eliot says the progress of a poet is

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“a continual extinction of personality.”, involving “depersonalization”

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“express feelings which are not in

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actual emotions at all.”

Question 11

“conscious and

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deliberate” Eliot

Question 12

“Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had…

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a bad cold, nevertheless/Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards” Waste land, The burial of the dead

Question 13

“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces/ After the frosty silence in the gardens/ After the agony in stony places

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He who was living is now dead/ We who were living are now dying” Waste Land, What the thunder said

Question 14

“I Tiresias have foresuffered all/ Enacted on..

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this same divan or bed; I who have sat by Thebes below the wall/ And walked among the lowest of the dead” Waste Land, The fire sermon

Question 15

Wordsworth wants to use “a selection of…

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language really used by men”

Question 16

Wordsworth - “the spontaneous

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overflow of powerful feelings”

Question 17

Wordsworth -“the feeling therein developed gives…

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importance to the action and situation, and not the action and situation to the feeling.”

Question 18

Wordsworth- “Poetry is the image of…

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man and nature”

Question 19

Eliot - a poet “has acquired a greater readiness and power in expressing ….

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those thoughts and feelings which…arise in him without immediate external excitement.”

Question 20

Wordsworth - “One of a Nation who…

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henceforth, must wear/ Their fetters in their souls.”

There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear,

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“Who, even the best, in such condition, free/ From

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self-reproach, reproach that he must share/ With Human-nature?” There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear, Wordsworth

Question 22

Wordsworth - “ours” makes ‘There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear’ more

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personal and politically relevant

Question 23

Wordsworth - “ordinary things should be….

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presented to the mind in an unusual aspect”