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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. In the opinion of Bachelard, a corner is a place of what sort of motion?

2. Why should the adjective "ancestral" not be used in a study of poetic phenomenology, according to Bachelard?

3. Who imagined a snail rolling over and over to form its shell internally?

4. As experienced by Bachelard, who sees only negative sublimation?

5. In what way for Bachelard do fantasy images have some objectivity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Valery's knowledge of geometry fail him in regard to spiral shells?

2. What effect does proximity to the horizon have on all things seen?

3. What is the nature of Palissy's fortess?

4. How does the age of a forest compare with the ages of fields and meadows according to Bachelard's theory put forth in "Intimate Immensity"?

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

6. In folklore and poetry, according to Bachelard's theory, in what way does image size transpose?

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

8. How does Paris manage to make the tiny stature of Tom Thumb seem believable?

9. As described by Bachelard, what is the forced-choice form of geometric reasoning associated with inside and outside that clouds metaphor?

10. As described by the author in "Miniature," how is any new phenomenon first viewed, when seen through a magnifying glass?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As referenced throughout "The Poetics of Space," what is topoanalysis of a space? What sort of space does Bachelard describe as topophilia? How does the concept of topoanalysis relate to the study of the isolated poetic image?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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