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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. Poetic imagery is real, according to Bachelard, even though it is not subject to what?
2. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
3. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
4. Bachelard wrote of the menagerie of what?
5. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Bachelard believe the ability to imagine is a major power of human nature?
2. What is the symbolism associated with a hermit's hut, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut"?
3. 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"?
4. For Bachelard, how is a nest connected with the foliage of the forest?
5. How did Bosco alter Bergson's drawer metaphor?
6. How does Pasternak describe a nest?
7. How does Victor Hugo's character, Quasimodo, describe Notre Dame Cathedral? What functions do his feelings represent?
8. What, according to Bachelard, is a dream house?
9. What is a house for a phenomenologist?
10. How do poets, psychologists, and psychoanalysts differ in their views of locks and closed boxes in the opinion of Bachelard?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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