AGES ERA PERIOD
20TH CENTURY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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regional dialect and political critique
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religious symbolism and society comedy
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iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
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witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
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Detailed explanation-1: -He explained that the mythical method consisted of creating “a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity”. “It is simply a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the intense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history” (177).
Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot’s plays, which begin with Sweeney Agonistes (published 1926; first performed in 1934) and end with The Elder Statesman (first performed 1958; published 1959), are, with the exception of Murder in the Cathedral (published and performed 1935), inferior to the lyric and meditative poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “The Perfect Critic, ” Eliot attacks what he calls “impressionistic criticism, ” the criticism of those who cannot relate their momentary, transient aesthetic experiences to the entire work of art. The task of the critic, Eliot writes in his introduction, is “to see literature steadily and to see it whole” (xv).