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He lives in the days that are past. His ideas, thoughts, feelings, associations, are all with barbarous manners, obsolete customs, and exploded superstitions. The march of his intellect is like that of a crab, backward.  \nThe philosophic mental tranquillity which looks round with an equal eye on all external things, collects a store of ideas, discriminates their relative value, assigns to all their proper place, and from the materials of useful knowledge thus collected, appreciated, and arranged, forms new combinations that impress the stamp of their power and utility on the real business of life, is diametrically the reverse of that frame of mind which poetry inspires, or from which poetry can emanate. The highest inspirations of poetry are resolvable into three ingredients: the rant of unregulated passion, the whining of exaggerated feeling, and the cant of factitious sentiment.  \nPoetry cannot claim the slightest share in any one of the comforts and utilities of life of which we have witnessed so many and so rapid advances. But though not useful, it maybe said it is highly ornamental, and deserves to be cultivated for the pleasure it yields. Even if this be granted, it does not follow that a writer of poetry in the present state of society is not a waster of his own time, and a robber of that of others.  \nPoetry is not one of those arts which, like painting, require repetition and multiplication, in order tobe diffused among society. There are more good poems already existing than are sufficient to employ that portion of life which any mere reader and recipient of poetical impressions should devote to them, and these having been produced in poetical times, are far superior in all the characteristics of poetry to the artificial reconstructions ofa few morbid ascetics in unpoetical times. To read the promiscuous rubbish of the present time to the exclusion of the select treasures of the past, is to substitute the worse for the better variety of the same mode of enjoyment.  \nPoetry was the mental rattle that awakened the attention of intellect in the infancy of civil society: but for the maturity of mind to make a serious business of the playthings ofits childhood, is as absurd as for a full-grown man to rub his gums with coral, and cry to be charmed to sleep by the jingle of silver bells.  \n1 Poets are compared to crabs in order to emphasise that  \nA poets are less intelligent than they once were.  \nB poems are the least intellectual form of writing.  \nC poets have sidestepped many modern problems.  \nD modern poems are overly preoccupied with the past.  \n2 The frame of mind that is ‘diametrically the reverse’(line 7) of a poet’s is best described as  \nA observing the world without bias in order to create something new and useful.  \nB powerful and extreme progress at the cost of the resources of the natural world.  \nC assigning value to items and arranging them correctly in order to ensure understanding.  \nD witnessing the world in a coldly scientific and emotionless way while repeating past mistakes.  \n5  \n10  \n15  \n20  \n1  \n[www.medify.com.au](www.medify.com.au)  \n3 Poetry is different from painting because  \nA paintings are objectively better.  \nB poems have existed for much longer.  \nC painting as an art form continues to improve.  \nD creating more paintings is useful, while creating more poems is not.  \n4 The writer groups items given to babies with early human activities in order to  \nA imply that the subject matter of poems is simplistic.  \nB prove that poetry is so easy to write that anyone can do it.  \nC suggest that adults should leave both activities in the past.  \nD hint at the reason why many poets have childish personalities.  \n5 The writer’s opinion of poetry is be","cbCaiuaRl3D0WKmQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuaRl3D0WKmQ","pdf",499788,"English","# Questions 1-5\n## Poets and the nature of poetry\n# Question 6\n## Proverb: crisis is an opportunity\n# Questions 7-10\n## Cause-and-effect: public library decline\n# Question 11\n## Cartoon quote and joke","[{\"question\":\"What do Questions 1–5 assess in the passage about poets and poetry?\",\"answer\":\"They assess interpretation of comparisons and statements in the passage, including why poets are compared to crabs, how the author contrasts poetic thinking with another mindset, and the author’s overall view of poetry.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Question 6 use the proverb “A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind”?\",\"answer\":\"It asks what the proverb implies, focusing on how responses to adversity should be understood and timed, including how interpreting challenges affects the benefits drawn from them.\"},{\"question\":\"What reasoning skills do Questions 7–10 test in the public library decline diagram?\",\"answer\":\"They test cause-and-effect reasoning by connecting staffing shortages, funding, resource organisation, and technology placement to the decline in public library usage, including which factors are internal or external.\"}]","GAMSAT Sample Questions - Section I - Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences | PDF",1790726714,18]