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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 refer to words?

2. What is the eighteenth-century theory that states the purpose of life is to make shells?

3. In the work of Milosz, how did he indicate that corners are not always safe?

4. What does every corner or angle in a house symbolize for Bachelard?

5. Contrary to the intellectual philosopher, states Bachelard, a poet may use words in what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the hermit crab and cuckoo bird similar?

2. In what way might a poet surprise an intellectual philosopher according to Bachelard?

3. In the mind of Bachelard, what is the dichotomy of the corner?

4. What does silence allow a person to do in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. Why did Diole, an expert on under-sea life, write about the desert?

6. According to Bachelard, why do old forests offer inner peace?

7. For Milosz's cynical character, what is contained in the corners of the palace?

8. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?

9. In the opinion of Bachelard, how do dreams of the shell affect the mind? What Baltrusaitis notion illustrates this effect?

10. Through poetry, in the mind of Bachelard, what does calm become?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What or who are the five characters of type created by Bachelard in "The Poetics of Space"? What is his motivation for creating each character? Why does he not feature a character known as "The Scientist"?

Essay Topic 2

As expressed in "The Dialectics of Outside and Inside," how are outside space and inside space like a mixture of being and nothingness? How, according to Michaux, can claustrophobia and agoraphobia occur simultaneously even though they are opposites?

Essay Topic 3

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

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