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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

In Proposition 42, the speaker’s lecture notes read: “Heárt-bréak is a spondee,” which makes the speaker weep with despair. Why does poetic analysis make the poet feel hopeless? (from Propositions 22 - 62)

She is overwhelmed by the demands of her daily life.

It is another example of logic’s failure to explain the human experience.

The speaker cannot face lecturing about poetry when she is experiencing writer’s block.

She believes analysis makes something lifeless.

2.

In Proposition 17, what is the underlying “disease” in this case? (from Propositions 1 - 21)

Hearbreak.

Sadness.

Anxiety.

Yearning for the color blue.

3.

What is the difference between desire and yearning for the speaker? (from Propositions 1 - 21)

Desire is good, and yearning is bad.

Desire is short-lived, while yearning is sustained.

Desire is natural, while yearning is artificial.

Desire may be achievable, but yearning never is.

4.

What does the iron pyrite in lapis lazuli symbolize to the speaker? (from Propositions 148 - 180)

The false promise of blue.

The deceptiveness of religion.

The meaninglessness of value judgments.

The impurity of human perception.

5.

What does the speaker mean when she says that the female gaze must be explored with “the eyes staying in the head” (#59)? (from Propositions 22 - 62)

That desire should be private, not public.

That male and female desire should be equally expressed.

That historically, women have been punished for desiring, and this must change.

That women need to learn to indulge their own desires.

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