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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. Why did Diole study and write about the desert?
2. What is the paradox of an old forest, as explained by the author?
3. What does Bachelard define as a coherent way to use reasoning to convincingly express primal images?
4. What image does Bachelard propose to give a door sacred character?
5. What enables a person to hear differently in the opinion of the author?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Hughes character, Emily, reveal the concept of "invented childhood"?
2. With regard to metaphoric levels of existence, Bachelard theorizes that poets differ from philosophers in what way?
3. What is the human intimacy associated with corners as described by the author in "Corners"?
4. What effect does proximity to the horizon have on all things seen?
5. For Milosz's cynical character, what is contained in the corners of the palace?
6. What two fears are contrasted by Michaux that may coexist even though they are opposites?
7. What does silence allow a person to do in the opinion of Bachelard?
8. As described by Bachelard, what is the forced-choice form of geometric reasoning associated with inside and outside that clouds metaphor?
9. How are the hermit crab and cuckoo bird similar?
10. Bachelard compares what images of nature put forward by Robinet and Michelet?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the main theme of "The Poetics of Space"? What main points are raised by Bachelard to support this theme?
Essay Topic 2
What is the ontology, or beingness, of a poetic image? Why does Bachelard choose to consider only the poetic image in the scope of "The Poetics of Space," even though he acknowledges that it is the least significant part of a poem?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Bachelard's view of cellars and cellar fears as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret, The Significance of the Hut." How does he use the works of Bosco and Poe to reinforce his view?
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