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How does Forster trace the human interest in the story to primitive times?
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How has the poet brought out her emotional attachment to her mother tongue?
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Discuss the importance of time in the narration of a story.
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Personification is a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to inanimate things and abstract ideas. How has it been used in the poem?
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Discuss in pairs or in small groups
What does a novel do?
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'Our daily life reflects a double allegiance to 'the life in time' and 'the life by values'.
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The description of novels as organisms.
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Comment on the physical features of the hawk highlighted in the poem and their significance.
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How does Forster use the analogy of Scheherazade to establish his point ?
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How does the poem emphasise the physical prowess of the Hawk?
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'There is no sophistry in my body' – this statement expresses the brutal frankness of the Hawk. Does the poet suggest something through this statement?
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'Now I hold Creation in my foot' – explain the centrality of this assertion in the poem. What makes the hawk's assertion of its invincibility so categorical?
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Why is the poem entitled 'Hawk Roosting'?
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Bring out the parallel suggested between the predatory instincts of the bird and human behaviour.
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Taking off from Forster’s references to Emily Bronte, Sterne and Proust, discuss the treatment of time in some of the novels you have read.
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Comment on the subtlety with which the poet captures the general pattern of communication within a family.
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Qua story’: what does the word mean? Find other expressions using the word qua.
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The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
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How is the idyllic juxtaposed with the pedestrian in the poem?
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Study the Note to Aspects of the Novel given at the end. Discuss the features that mark the piece as a talk as distinguished from a critical essay.
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