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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 53

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Who said, “Poetry makes nothing happen”?

  1. Marianne Moore
  2. Ezra Pound
  3. Wallace Stevens
  4. W. H. Auden

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Correct answer: (D) W. H. Auden

Explanation

The line is from Auden's elegy “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”.