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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. How does Bachelard describe images that attribute human qualities to a nest?

2. What is the ability to imagine?

3. Which statement does Bachelard determine is most indicative of attic fears?

4. What does a metaphor present?

5. Topo-analysis is useful for studying what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism associated with a hermit's hut, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?

2. Why does Bachelard claim that daydreams of nests start us dreaming of security?

3. Why does Bachelard disagree with Bergson's metaphorical use of the drawer?

4. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?

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

6. How are old homes and nests similar according to Bachelard?

7. Why does Bachelard believe the ability to imagine is a major power of human nature?

8. How does Pasternak describe a nest?

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

10. As explained by Bachelard, what is the beingness, or ontology, of the poetic image?

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

Why does Bachelard feel the need to dephilosophize and undo psychoanalysis in order to take a fresh approach to the process of imagination?

Essay Topic 3

In "Corners," what do corners contain, according to Bachelard? How does Milosz's cynical character bolster Bachelard's notions?

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