{"id":547,"date":"2022-12-16T12:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/education\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2023-03-27T06:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:56:48","slug":"e212-questions-t-s-eliot-spr-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-questions-t-s-eliot-spr-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"E212 Questions &#8211; T. S. Eliot &#8211; Spr. 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:ajdrake@ajdrake.com\"><strong>EMAIL<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-syllabus-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SYLLABUS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-policies-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>POLICIES<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-questions-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">QUESTIONS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-presentations-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-journals-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>JOURNALS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-paper-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PAPER<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/e212-british-lit-since-1760-final-spring-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EXAM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.&nbsp; How does this poem represent nature?&nbsp; What is the relationship between the humans in this poem and their environment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.&nbsp; How does this poem describe the passage of time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.&nbsp; What keeps the speaker from acting or even making decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.&nbsp; How do lines 122-end affect your understanding of the speaker\u2019s situation?&nbsp; How do you interpret the symbolism involved in these lines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.&nbsp; How, on pages 2320-21, does Eliot describe the tradition and the \u201cmind of Europe\u201d to which writers must connect themselves?&nbsp; How can the past be altered by the present?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6.&nbsp; On 2321, how does Eliot answer the charge that his theory requires \u201ca ridiculous amount of erudition\u201d?&nbsp; Do you find \u201cThe Waste Land,\u201d which Eliot wrote three years after this essay, a successful example of the kind of poetry he is calling for?&nbsp; Why or why not?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.&nbsp; From 2322-23, how does Eliot characterize the creative process?&nbsp; What does the poet\u2019s mind \u201cexpress\u201d?&nbsp; How does his analogy of the poet\u2019s mind to \u201ca bit of finely filiated platinum\u201d help him explain the creative process?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8.&nbsp; What fault, on 2324, does Eliot find with Wordsworth\u2019s formulation of poetic expression as \u201cemotion recollected in tranquility\u201d?&nbsp; How does his essay as a whole reject romantic expressivism?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9.&nbsp; Eliot does not say much about how the reader connects to the kind of literature he is defending.&nbsp; What conjectures can you offer on this point?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edition:<\/strong> Abrams, M. H. et al, eds.&nbsp; <em>The Norton Anthology of English Literature.&nbsp; <\/em>8th ed.&nbsp; Vol. F.&nbsp; New York: Norton, 2006.&nbsp; ISBN Package 3 (Vols. DEF) 0-393-92834-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d 1.&nbsp; How does this poem represent nature?&nbsp; What is the relationship between the humans in this poem and their environment? 2.&nbsp; How does this poem describe the passage of time? 3.&nbsp; What keeps the speaker from acting or even making decisions? 4.&nbsp; How do lines 122-end affect your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[43],"class_list":["post-547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ajdrake.com\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}