Symbiosis National Aptitude Test SNAP 2012 Paper

A. The rightfully believing that his geniuses in poetry laid in personal utterances, Irish poet William Butler Yeats recognized that these personal utterances alone could not organize a body of a lyric poetry and drama into the organic structure he hoped to build.
B. For one thing personal utterances is beset by danger of sentimentality, which leads poetry away from that reality that poetry would deal with various kinds of self-pity and self-deceptions.
C. He thus has to technique by which the person could some how be objectified, be given the appearance of impersonal “truth” and yet retained· motive force of privately felt belief.
D. The partial solution was the theory the mask.