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Eliot compares the poet to which scientific element in his theory of impersonality?

AA solvent

BA catalyst

CA reagent

DA precipitate

Answer:

B. A catalyst

Read Explanation:

T.S Eliot compares the mind of the poet to a catalyst and the process of poetic creation to the process of a chemical reaction. Eliot has cited example by saying that when oxygen and sulphur-di-oxide are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid.


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