The Poetics of Space Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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The Poetics of Space Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. A poetic image is independent of what according to Bachelard?

2. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?

3. How is a nest connected to the foliage of the forest according to the author?

4. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?

5. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?

Short Essay Questions

1. As stated by the author in "House and Universe," what is the significance of old houses one used to live in?

2. What is the concept of pure sublimation as put forth by Bachelard, and why is it useful?

3. What is the anthropo-cosmology of a house as described by Bachelard?

4. To what did Vlaminck compare the contentment of humans in their homes?

5. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?

6. Why does Bachelard focus on the isolated poetic image, even though it is the least significant element in the composition of a poem?

7. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?

8. What is "La Redousse?"

9. How do cellar fears differ from attic fears, based on Bachelard's theories in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

10. What, according to Bachelard, is the homology that exists between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As described in "The Phenomenology of Roundness," what is absolute bird and the being of round life? How does this concept fit with Bachelard's poetics of space?

Essay Topic 2

In the view of a phenomenologist, how does an individual inhabit his vital space? What is the anthropo-cosmology of a space?

Essay Topic 3

In "Miniature," what does Bachelard mean when he states that miniatures are not just smaller large things? Consider views through a magnifying glass.

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