Question

Read an excerpt from TS Not Mobel Prem czestances tech
10 December 1945
When I began to think of what should say to you this dont
simply my appreciation of the high honour which the Swedish Academy as
conter upon me. But to do this adequately proved no simple task my business
yet the words were beyond my command Merely to indicate that
received the highest international honour that can be bestowed upon a man of were
be only to say what everyone knows already to protess my own worthwes would be to
doubt upon the wisdom of the Academy to praise the Academy
1, as a literary critic, approved the recognition given to myself as poet. May there
that it be taken for granted, that I experienced, on leaming of this award to the
normal emotions of exaltation and vanity that any human being might be expected to feel
such a moment, with enjoyment of the flattery and easperation at the inconvenience of be
turned overnight into a public figure?
The Nobel Award seems to me the election of an individual, chosen from time to time from
one nation or another, and selected by something like an act of grace, to a peculiar robe
and to become a peculiar symbol
A ceremony takes place, by which a man is suddenly endowed with some function which he
did not fill before. So the question is not whether he was worthy to be so singled out, but
whether he can perform the function which you have assigned to him the function of serving
as a representative, so far as any man can be of things of far greater importance than the
value of what he himself has written.
A Tick the most appropriate options.
What was TS Eliot's reaction to the award?
a. He criticized the Swedish Academy for having conferred the award on him,
b. He readily flattered the Swedish Academy and praised its wisdom
c. He was not happy with the award and he did not say anything
d. He expressed his appreciation of the high honour conferred on him
What does the phrase 'man of letters' mean?
a. a flatterer
b. a famous writer
ca person with a charming personality
d. an educated and intellectual person
Eliot did not consider it fit to praise the Swedish Academy which gave him the Nobel Prize
because he
knew that it would give him the award.
b. wasn't sure if he could do justice to the task at hand
c was an impolite and arrogant person
d thought it meant he realized that he was a great poet​

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