Question

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

• A. A solvent
• B. A catalyst
• C. A reagent
• D. A precipitate

Answer 1

Answer:

B. A catalyst

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.