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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 30

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Whose poem does Cleanth Brooks close-read in the discussion associated here with “the well-wrought urn”?

  1. William Wordsworth
  2. John Keats
  3. William Blake
  4. Alfred Tennyson

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Correct answer: (B) John Keats

Explanation

The official answer is John Keats, B, whose Ode on a Grecian Urn Brooks examines through tensions between life, art and the poem’s closing statement. A useful distinction is that the book title The Well Wrought Urn also invokes Donne’s The Canonization; Donne is not among these options. The keyed question refers to the Keats close reading.

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