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Why is the quality of pity earth-bound while the other two passions are elevating?
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Indicate the details that tell us that the narrator was not very financially comfortable during his stay in London.
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How have the three passions contributed to the quality of Russell's life?
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How did the narrator adjust to the ways of life first in London and then in Cambridge, U.S.A.?
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What do you understand the character of Mrs. Croft from the story?
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What kind of relationship did Mrs. Croft share with her daughter Helen?
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How does the narrator bring out the contrast between the Indian way of life and American society? Do you think his wife Mala adjusted comfortably to the new way of life?
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How does the bond of affection between Mrs. Croft and the narrator evolve?
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Living abroad is challenging in many ways.
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The Indian family system offers more security to the aged than what is found in the West.
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How does Shelley's attitude to science differ from that of Wordsworth and Keats?
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The eccentricities of the old are often endearing.
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'It is not an accident that the most discrimination literary criticism of Shelley's thought and work is by a distinguished scientist, Desmond King-Hele.' How does this statement bring out the meeting point of poetry and science?
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What do you infer from Darwin's comment on his indifference to literature as he advanced in years?
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How do the patterns of creativity displayed by scientists differ from those displayed by poets?
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What is the central argument of the speaker?
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Discuss the manner in which the author interweaves details of the narrator’s family with the flow of the main narrative.
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'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'.
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‘Mrs. Croft’s was the first death I mourned in America, for, hers was the first life I had admired; she had left this world, at last, ancient and alone, never to return’—how do these lines encapsulate the bond that is possible between two strangers?
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Poetry and science are incompatible.
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