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Virginia Woolf: The Duchess and the Jeweller

Question 4 • English 12 B

In the following lines from "Sailing to Byzantium:"Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.There is conflict between:

Answer
A
life and death.
B
love and selfishness.
C
the past and the present.
D
bodily pleasure and pursuits of the mind.

Explanation

“Sensual music” suggests bodily pleasure and physical, immediate experience. “Monuments of unageing intellect” refers to enduring works of the mind, which people caught up in sensual pleasures neglect. The contrast is therefore between bodily pleasure and pursuits of the mind, choice D.

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