LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Was it for this-”
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“Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
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“And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”
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“April is the cruellest month”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The opening lines of the poem-"April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land"-did not originally appear until the top of the second page of the typescript.
Detailed explanation-2: -’April is the cruellest month’ is the opening line to T. S. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land.
Detailed explanation-3: -April is when we dare to hope. In the Waste Land, nothing can be crueler than hope, since it can only lead to disappointment. It always leads to disappointment. In the Waste Land, hope hurts, and April hurts most of all by mocking us with possibilities that can never be realized.
Detailed explanation-4: -“April is the cruellest month.” Thus begins one of the most important pieces of modern poetry ever written: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.