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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. What, in the opinion of Bachelard, moves the dreamer into the world of infinity?
2. According to Valery, how does a mollusk build?
3. Which is the best description of Diole?
4. Where is the character, Emily, when she recognizes that she has withdrawn into herself?
5. How is Tom Thumb killed?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the opinion of Bachelard, how do dreams of the shell affect the mind? What Baltrusaitis notion illustrates this effect?
2. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?
3. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?
4. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?
5. For Milosz's cynical character, what is contained in the corners of the palace?
6. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?
7. In folklore and poetry, according to Bachelard's theory, in what way does image size transpose?
8. How do a psychologist and a phenomenologist differ when viewing a poetic image in Bachelard's opinion?
9. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?
10. In the mind of Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of the corner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "Corners," what do corners contain, according to Bachelard? How does Milosz's cynical character bolster Bachelard's notions?
Essay Topic 2
What is Baudelaire's interpretation of the concept of "vast" as explained in "Intimate Immensity"? How and why does Bachelard disagree with Baudelaire's interpretation?
Essay Topic 3
As mentioned in "Introduction," discuss the distinct viewpoints of The Poet and The Phenomenologist (capitalized to indicate their stature as characters of type in "The Poetics of Space"), as contrasted with Bachelard's own former identity, the scientist?
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