Paper 1 Practice Exercises
September 21, 2021•221 words
"Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth but as machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth but as machinery, but really to perceive, and feel that it is so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines."
- Matthew Arnold, "Sweetness and Light" Culture and Anarchy
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"The impact of poetry is so hard and direct that for the moment there is no other sensation except that of the poem itself. What profound depths we visit then - how sudden and complete is our immersion! There is nothing here to catch hold of; nothing to stay us in our flight.... The poet is always our contemporary. Our being for the moment is centered and constricted, as in any violent shock of personal emotion."
- Virginia Woolf, 'How should one Read a Book?' p69
The exclamatory sentence in this selection is: "What profound depths we visit then - how sudden and complete is our immersion!". The use of the exclamation is to allow the audience to understand the importance of the words being said.