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Read an excerpt from TS Eliot's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at the City Hall in Stockholm,
10 December 1948,
When I began to think of what I should say to you this evening, I wished only to express very
simply my appreciation of the high honour which the Swedish Academy has thought fit to
confer upon me. But to do this adequately proved no simple task. My business is with words,
yet the words were beyond my command. Merely to indicate that I was aware of having
received the highest international honour that can be bestowed upon a man of letters, would
be only to say what everyone knows already. To profess my own unworthiness would be to cast
doubt upon the wisdom of the Academy; to praise the Academy might suggest that
I, as a literary critic, approved the recognition given to myself as a poet. May I therefore ask
that it be taken for granted, that I experienced, on learning of this award to myself, all the
normal emotions of exaltation and vanity that any human being might be expected to feel at
such a moment, with enjoyment of the flattery, and exasperation at the inconvenience of being
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 fill a peculiar role
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.
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what was T S eliot,s reaction to the award?
a. he criticized the Swedish academy for having conferred the prased it's wisdom. ...............
b. he really flatterd the Swedish academy and praised it's 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. .............
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