A student writes an essay on Pan Tadeusz arguing that the poem is both an epic and a nostalgic picture of a way of life that was vanishing. Which fact best supports the second claim?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. It was written in Paris, long after that world had ended
- Step 1: Nostalgia needs a gap between the writer and the world he describes. Step 2. Mickiewicz wrote in Paris, after the partition ended the old noble world. Answer: It was written in exile in Paris. Why not the others: The metre, the number of books and the invocation are formal facts that say nothing about distance in time.
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