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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Pleasures of a Technological University
A few questions about Edwin Morgan's poem "Pleasures of a Technological University":
retro-rockets and peripeteia
sapphics and turquoise
sines and sememes
hubris and helium
Eliot and entropy
enjambment and switchgear
quasars and hapax legomena
thermodynamics and macrostylistics
anti-hero and anti-matter
bubble chambers and E.K. Chambers
H2O and 8vo
genres and genera…
1. Does Eliot refer to Thomas Stearns Eliot?
2. Does "hubris" mean "arrogance"?
3. Does "8vo" mean "Octavo", describing a size of book page?
retro-rockets and peripeteia
sapphics and turquoise
sines and sememes
hubris and helium
Eliot and entropy
enjambment and switchgear
quasars and hapax legomena
thermodynamics and macrostylistics
anti-hero and anti-matter
bubble chambers and E.K. Chambers
H2O and 8vo
genres and genera…
1. Does Eliot refer to Thomas Stearns Eliot?
2. Does "hubris" mean "arrogance"?
3. Does "8vo" mean "Octavo", describing a size of book page?
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Hi I'd say yes to all of those. 'Hubris' does mean 'arrogance', but it has a deeper meaning in drama. Someone goes too far; thinks they are better than they are; and then bad things happen to them.
- Hi I'd say yes to all of those.
- 'Hubris' does mean 'arrogance', but it has a deeper meaning in drama.
- Someone goes too far; thinks they are better than they are; and then bad things happen to them.
- Without knowing it, they've signed up to their own downfall And I'm sure you're right about Eliot.
- 'Entropy' is the scientific theory of the point at which matter and energy come to an end.
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I'd say yes to all of those. 'Hubris' does mean 'arrogance', but it has a deeper meaning in drama. Someone goes too far; thinks they are better than they are; and then bad things happen to them. Without knowing it, they've signed up to their own downfall
And I'm sure you're right about Eliot. 'Entropy' is the scientific theory of the point at which matter and energy come to
I'd say yes to all of those. 'Hubris' does mean 'arrogance', but it has a deeper meaning in drama. Someone goes too far; thinks they are better than they are; and then bad things happen to them. Without knowing it, they've signed up to their own downfall
And I'm sure you're right about Eliot. 'Entropy' is the scientific theory of the point at which matter and energy come to
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