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READING QUIZ QUESTIONS

Note to Instructors

Many instructors find a reading quiz to be a useful tool that encourages students to do
assigned reading in a timely fashion. These multiple-choice questions provide a readings
quiz for Ways of Social Change.

The questions are designed to evaluate only the reading activity and memory of your
students. They do not evaluate students’ comprehension, deeper understanding and
critical thinking of the book’s topics. In my experience, these can be better cultivated and
evaluated in discussions and other means of assessment, for example short-answer
exams, and by engaging in the Topics for Discussion and Activities for Further Study at
the end of each chapter.

Questions to these readings quiz questions are arranged in the order in which the quiz
material appears in each chapter, providing a measure of how far the student has read.
Correct answers are indicated with an asterisk.

As with any multiple-choice question, there could be more than one right answer, but
only one answer is the best answer. Other answers may be interesting, possible, and
worth discussing, but they are not what the students have read in Ways of Social Change.

Chapter 4. Technology, Science, and Innovation

This chapter opens with a long discussion of:

a. computers
*b. literacy
c. Chinese inventions
d. genetically modified organisms

What is the translation of the lines of script in Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, and Cyrillic at the
beginning of Chapter 4?
*a. You need to call your mother and tell her you love her
b. Every dark cloud has a silver lining
c. Social change has no beginning and no end
d. All’s well that ends well, I suppose

Being able to read and write—possessing the technology of literacy—can be:

a. a burden for those whose jobs don’t require these abilities
b. the mark of civilization
c. part of human beings’ genetic “hard wiring,” i.e. we are made to develop these skills
*d. a source of power

In poor countries today, the prospects for a better life for women, including control of
their reproduction, is greatly increased when they:
a. leave their village and move to the city where good jobs are available
b. convince their husbands to be monogamous, i.e. have sexual relation only with them
*c. can read and write
d. start their own businesses with small loans from nontraditional banks

Many leaders of anti-colonial movements that struggled and sometimes fought to gain
independence for their countries were:
*a. well educated and familiar with writings about democracy and personal liberty
b. did so despite not having weapons with which to carry out an armed rebellion
c. disillusioned when independence came, and they left their countries
d. from rich families that had benefitted from earlier colonialism

In what country or empire were the compass, gunpowder, spinning and paddle wheels,
and iron suspension bridges invented?
a. Japan
b. Germany
c. Babylon
*d. China

What technology originated in South Asia, spread across the Middle East, and came to
Europe in the eighth century, having a profound effect there and stimulating social
change?
*a. the stirrup
b. the printing press
c. astronomy
d. bronze smelting

Very important to feudalism, both in the creation and working of feudal estates was:
a. written language
*b. the horse, and especially the large “war horse”
c. a code of law
d. the bronze sword

What technology greatly changed architecture and other physical as well as social aspects
of American life in the first half of the twentieth century?
a. the computer
b. refrigeration
c. electricity
*d. the automobile

What were US rural families most likely to purchase first when they got electricity?
a. a television
b. an air conditioner
c. a microwave oven
*d. a washing machine

Evolutionary systems theory describes stages, eras, and periods of societal development.
Many of these are named for:
a. the most famous person of the era
*b. a new technology that distinguished it from the time before
c. the dominant belief system of the time
d. the event that is most often associated with the period of time of the era

What term describes the chance for all people to adopt, enjoy, and benefit from
technology?
a. hedonism
b. human agency
*c. technological democracy
d. digital communitarianism

In the sense understood by social scientists, technology is:

a. physical objects, devices, or apparatuses
b. knowledge of and ability to operate devices, that is, technique
c. an organization or system of activities
*d. All of the above are involved in what is meant by technology

Which is an illustration of human agency and technology?

a. a troubled person threatens her neighbor and robs her at gunpoint
b. a drill used to bore holes can be a screwdriver when the drill’s bit matches the head
screws
*c. an individual finds a smooth-sided bottle and uses it in place of the rolling pin they
lost
d. a pilot figures out how to land the plane safely even though the landing gear
malfunctions

Technology drives the scope and direction of social change by:

a. changing the amount of time, and the timing to do things
b. making new opportunities and activities available to people
c. redistributing power in the form of wealth and capabilities
*d. All of the above are ways technology drives social change

Technologies are developed not only to solve a current problem; they also may:
a. make a current problem greater than it was before the technology
*b. create new opportunities and the desire to do what was previously unimagined
c. be developed to solve what no one thought was a problem
d. be prevented from solving a problem, because they make the solution too easy

Explaining a new behavior as the almost-automatic outcome of changing technology:

*a. fails to recognize how technology interacts with social change, often being developed
or adopted because of political, social and economic change
b. rejects human agency in explaining why we do what we do
c. allows businesses to predict what will happen if people buy their product
d. makes ethical decisions and moral reasoning impossible

Most of the research done in the US is paid for by:

a. large corporations looking for new products and services to sell to the public
*b. the federal government
c. large foundations that receive donations from the public and have investments
d. universities, and indirectly by student tuition and taxpayer money

Increasingly, science and the development of technology are:

a. done in partnerships between government and industry
b. accomplished with large teams of researchers and designers, not by lone individuals
c. funded by very wealthy individuals such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos
*d. All of the above are correct

DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, devised a plan for the
National Security Agency to gather troves of data about:
a. Russia’s plans to annex the Crimea and invade Ukraine
b. American’s health and health care, as a measure of the effects of the ADA (Affordable
Care Act or Obamacare)
*c. Americans’ phone calls and emails sent and received from abroad
d. extraterrestrial beings, including flying saucers and seeds dispersed by meteorites

Military-related research led to innovations and technologies that have found nonmilitary
uses. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
a. HTML language used in computers
b. GPS tracking
*c. composting of organic waste
d. the driverless car

What scientific explanation came centuries after people had been dealing with a problem
in a way that the science, too, recommended?
*a. the spread of infectious germs
b. irrigation flows
c. the rotation of crops, i.e. changing what is planted season to season
d. how to live longer through good nutrition
Why did an early explanation for cholera require all human cesspools (where human
waste collected) to be drained or dumped into the Thames River that runs through
London?
a. The Thames River is cold, and its low temperature would kill the cholera germs.
b. The salty water of the Thames River was thought to kill the cholera germs.
c. Cesspools were used only by the poor who were thought to cause of the disease;
closing the cesspools would cause the poor to leave London.
*d. It was believed that cholera was caused by foul air, and human waste in cesspools
was the source of much of the air’s putrid smell.

Science carried out with no intention of having a practical application is called:

a. immaterial science
b. sui generis
*c. pure science
d. a boondoggle

The scientific effort that developed nuclear weapons in the 1940s is known as:
*a. applied science
b. practical science
c. material science
d. the military-industrial research complex

Science and technology are often linked when:

a. ordinary people realize the possibilities of some scientific discoveries
*b. scientists and practitioners work together or a scientist is also a practitioner
c. there is a strong monetary incentive to develop a scientific findings into a commercial,
saleable product
d. government funding requires the research to have practical consequences

What popular technology was developed over a hundred-year period by crafters and
mechanics, becoming popular after the application of scientific research?
a. television
b. the automobile
*c. the bicycle
d. the radio

Metallurgical technologies were developed and reached a fine point in developing what
device?
a. the rifle
*b. the sword
c. the heavy plow
d. the I-beam used in building skyscrapers

Early research on the diffusion of innovation focused on:

*a. farmers’ adoption of new types of seeds
b. the spread of popular music such as rock ’n’ roll around the world
c. shipbuilding designs originating in Asia and adopted in Europe
d. fashion, especially of casual wear and practical footwear

What does the “S curve” or sigmoid model of the diffusion of innovation illustrate?
a. the importance of words attached to new ideas; words beginning with S are the most
effective
b. how innovations are first adopted for how they look, then for their usefulness, and
finally for their familiarity as part of everyday life
c. the importance of convenience; innovations can replace other things only if they are
easier to use
*d. the path of adoption of innovations, first by a few people, then very quickly by many,
and finally by most of the remaining holdouts

What technology had a major role in the “Green Revolution” and the adoption of
industrial agriculture in the US and around the world?
a. electricity
b. the container ship
*c. hybrid seeds
d. the tractor

Changes in US agriculture made it very productive, setting off a chain of policies that
included:
a. creating a system of government-funded subsidies paid to farmers
b. shipping grain overseas to reduce supply in the US, thus helping to raise the market
price
c. land consolidation, as farming became more of an industry and less a way for families
to support themselves
*d. All of the above are a consequence of agricultural productivity

What is the question raised by the idea of “Western exceptionalism”?

a. What technologies can keep the world safe for democracy?
*b. Why did economic expansion after 1500 accelerate in Europe rather than Asia or
elsewhere?
c. How did older farming technologies find new uses when the US expanded westward?
d. Can technology outpace laws to regulate it during times of rapid economic expansion?

The German scholar, Max Weber, put forth the idea that:
*a. certain religious ideas encouraged people to become wealthy
b. inventions and discoveries are usually the consequence of experimentation
c. fossil fuels would someday power an industrial revolution
d. a strong middle class is the best guarantor of democracy

A significant foundation of technological development and economic expansion in the

West is the widespread popular belief that ______ has a moral, and not merely a
utilitarian, value.
a. the family
b. patriotism
c. political participation
*d. work

Many economists believe that technology will be developed and adopted most readily if
it:
a. is simple and easily understood by users
b. benefits the domination of society by a group of elites
*c. increases productivity with the same amount of, or less, labor
d. has many uses rather than one narrow use

In the last two centuries the basic conditions for innovation:

*a. probably haven’t changed very much: an environment that fosters an exchange of
ideas
b. have changed radically, from one valuing curiosity and discovery to an environment
that offers the possibility of enormous economic gain
c. have changed from discovery being a team effort to discovery being the work of a lone
individual
d. have been eroded by growing state power to regulate and tax

In order to expand their conquest around the world, most European nations created:
*a. companies to carry out trade and enforce their power to do so
b. democracies around the world that would promote private property and entrepreneurs
c. a ship building industry and strong navies
d. adopted an ideology (almost a religion) of manifest destiny

By the late 1800s European nations laid claim to colonies that included:
a. the right to make slaves of anyone in any of their colonies
b. the settlement of millions of their own citizens in those colonies
*c. nearly 85% of the world’s land mass
d. All of the above are true

Two technologies were extremely important for European nations’ colonization efforts:
a. modern banking and building designs that created better homes
*b. guns and railroads
c. hybrid seeds and farming machinery powered by internal combustion engines
d. the telegraph and antibiotics

People who chose not to use digital communication devices (smart phones, etc.) or who
believe their religion forbids the use of modern technology are examples of:
a. Luddites, i.e. followers of Ned Ludd
*b. resistance to social change
c. subversives bent on undermining capitalism
d. resistance to technological efficiency

What does the word “utopia” mean?

*a. nowhere
b. place of no one
c. place of perfection
d. another’s dream

At the heart of many utopian visions, as well as many dystopian visions, is:
a. an absence of modern technology
b. the absence of any scientific understanding of the world
*c. technology, as a source of good and as an uncontrollable source of evil
d. science in the hands of an evil genius or corrupt dictator

One of the first dystopias was the story of:

a. Robinson Caruso
*b. Dr. Frankenstein and his monster
c. World War III
d. the four horsemen of the apocalypse

In the final analysis, what is it about technology that makes it frightening to many people
and the subject of many books that present a fearful view of the future?
a. energy required to run technologies takes away from energy use for humane purposes
*b. its consequences are unknown or not certain to produce the result they promise
c. it is more likely to be used by people bent on doing evil rather than good
d. we become dependent on technology, but it has a limited lifespan and will leave us
powerless when it wears out or breaks down

What in Japanese history is an example of the rejection of technology?

a. the attack on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor
b. the Cultural Revolution that included breaking millions of objects not made by hand
*c. the Tokugawa dynasty’s forbidding the possession and ownership of guns
d. Emperor Hideyosi’s rejection of modern timepieces (clocks and watches) as being
contrary to heaven’s design

The rule of the Tokugawa for 200 years marks a period of:
a. continual warfare
b. rapid technological development and the spread of innovation
c. gradual Westernization and the adoption of Western political and religious ideas
*d. peace

What describes the “conservative peasant”?

*a. a man standing up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown
him
b. someone more interested in religious salvation than a more materialistic way of life
c. anyone who dresses modestly and speaks only when spoken to
d. a woman who accepts her subservience to her husband and a husband who demands it
The idea that a problem can be solved with technology, and so nothing will need to
change in the way people are living and going about their lives, is called:
a. an innovation
b. technocracy
c. a diffuse innovation
*d. a technological fix

Senators Leahy and Sessions are quoted as believing that:

a. the US must develop green technologies and move quickly away from the use of fossil
fuels
b. life in the US was far superior 100 years ago to what it is today
*c. new inventions, especially in the financial industry, would solve problems created by
the Great Recession
d. global climate change is a hoax

Persons like Julian Simon who believe technological innovation will reverse or solve
most problems created by unsustainable and environmentally destructive human practices
are:
*a. technoptimists
b. usually religiously inspired by the idea that God has a plan to save us from our folly
c. believers in triage, the idea that only some people can survive catastrophe and we can
choose who the survivors should be
d. science skeptics with little faith in scientific research that models impending
catastrophes

What is the concept that refers to linkages, networks of influence, and flows of capital,
goods, knowledge, and images around the world?
*a. globalization
b. colonialism
c. mercantile capitalism
d. trade liberalization

The plan, often imposed on poorer countries, of creating a monetary situation and
government budget (including taxation) that is favorable to foreign investment is referred
to as:
a. Reagonomics
*b. the Washington Consensus or neoliberalism
c. budgetary and monetary restraint
d. economic nationalism

Many people in poorer countries believe the international economy is not “a level playing
field” and often object to:
a. the US dollar serving as an international currency
b. foreign controls of their banking system and other economic sanctions
*c. patents and copyrights, more often held by corporations in affluent countries
d. genetically modified crops being imported into their country
Pharmaceutical companies have been widely criticized for not making more widely
available in poorer countries and at a lower price, drugs for what illness?
a. avian flu
b. SARS (several acute respiratory syndrome)
c. West Nile disease
*d. HIV/AIDS

In the story of the international aid organization, what was given to farmers in the belief
that they needed it to increase agricultural productivity?
a. genetically modified seeds
b. tractors that could both pull plows and haul wagons
*c. rototillers—small garden plows powered by gasoline engines
d. soil testing kits so the farmers could analyze their soil and add what was needed to
grow crops

In the story of the international aid organization that brought a new technology to
farmers, what was probably their first and biggest mistake?
a. they believed the people had access to electricity, but they didn’t
b. they didn’t understand the food taboos of the people’s culture, that is, the things they
couldn’t eat
*c. they didn’t recognize that women did most of the farm work
d. the technology was made by an enemy of the people they gave the technology to, thus
creating immediate distrust about the organization’s motives

In the story of the international aid organization that brought a new technology to
farmers, what did the farmers really need?
*a. wheelbarrows
b. safe and affordable childcare
c. contraceptives/birth control
d. basic education

What term describes a newly adopted technology that is a “good fit,” i.e. that meets
people’s needs, they can maintain it, and they have the option to not use the technology?
a. utilitarianist
b. innovation
c. panopticon
*d. appropriate technology

What technology, discussed at length, has improved the lives of millions of people by
helping them start businesses or improve their traditional work?
*a. microcredit
b. numeracy (literacy about simple mathematics)
c. calculators
d. the Internet
Technologies—often very simple ones—that are developed to solve problems but also to
minimize environmental damage and the use of resources are called:
a. conservation mechanisms
*b. sustainable technologies
c. ecological solutions
d. geo-friendly alternatives
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 Ara Vus Prec

by
T. S. Eliot

THE OVID PRESS

Or puoi, la quantitate
Comprender dell’ amor ch’a te mi scalda,
Quando dismento nostra vanitate
Trattando l’ombre come cosa salda.
 CONTENTS
page
Gerontion 11
Burbank 14
Sweeny among the Nightingales 16
Sweeny erect 18
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service 20
Whispers of Immortality 21
The Hippopotamus 22
A Cooking Egg 24
Lune de Miel 26
Dans le Restaurant 27
Le Spectateur 28
Mélange Adultère de Tout 29
Ode 30
Prufrock 33
Portrait of a Lady 38
Preludes 43
Rhapsody of a Windy Night 45
Morning at the Window 48
Conversation Galante 49
Aunt Helen 50
Cousin Nancy 51
Mr. Apollinax 52
The Boston Evening Transcript 53
La Figlia Che Piange 54
THIS IS NO.
 GERONTION
Thou hast nor youth nor age
But as it were, an after dinner sleep
Dreaming of both.

ere I am, an old

man in a dry
month
Being read to
by a boy,
waiting for rain.
I was neither at
the hot gates
Nor fought in
the warm rain
Nor knee deep
in the salt
marsh, heaving
a cutlass,
Bitten by flies,
fought.
My house is a
decayed house
And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner,
Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp,
Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London.
The goat coughs at night in the field overhead;
Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds.
The woman keeps the kitchen, makes tea,
Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.

I an old man,
A dull head among windy spaces.
Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign.”
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness. In the juvescence of the year
Came Christ the tiger
In depraved May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering judas,
To be eaten, to be divided, to be drunk
Among whispers; by Mr. Silvero
With caressing hands, at Limoges

Who walked all night in the next room;

By Hakagama, bowing among the Titians;
By Madame de Tornquist, in the dark room
Shifting the candles; Fraülein von Kulp
Who turned in the hall, one hand on the door. Vacant shuttles
Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues; deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities. Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted,
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving. Gives too late
What’s not believed in, or if still believed,
In memory only, reconsidered passion. Gives too soon
Into weak hands what’s thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal propagates a fear. Think
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. Think at last

We have not reached conclusion, when I
Stiffen in a rented house. Think at last
I have not made this show purposelessly
And it is not by any concitation
Of the backward devils.
I would meet you upon this honestly.
I that was near your heart was removed therefrom
To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition.
I have lost my passion: why should I want to keep it
Since what is kept must be adulterated?
I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch:
How should I use it for your closer contact?

These with a thousand small deliberations

Protract the profit of their chilled delirium,
Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do,
Suspend its operations, will the weevil
Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs Cammell, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running by the Horn,
White feathers in the snow, the gulf claims
And an old man, driven on the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
Tenants of the house,
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
BURBANK WITH A BAEDEKER:
BLEISTEIN WITH A CIGAR.
Tra la la la la la laire—nil nisi divinum stabile
est; cætera fumus—the gondola stopped the old
palace was there How charming it’s grey & pink
—Goats & monkeys, with such hair too!—so the
Countess passed on until she came through the
little park, where Niobe presented her with a
cabinet, & so departed.

urbank
crossed a little
bridge
Descending at
a small hotel;
Princess
Volupine
arrived,
They were
together, and
he fell.

Defunctive
music under
sea
Passed
seaward with
the passing bell
Slowly: the god Hercules
Had left him, that had loved him well.

The horses, under the axletree

 Beat up the dawn from Istria
With even feet. Her shuttered barge
Burned on the water all the day.

But this or such was Bleistein’s way:

A saggy bending of the knees
And elbows, with the palms turned out,
Chicago Semite Viennese.

A lustreless protrusive eye

Stares from the protozoic slime
At a perspective of Canaletto.
The smoky candle end of time

Declines. On the Rialto once.

The rats are underneath the piles.
The jew is underneath the lot.
Money in furs. The boatman smiles,

Princess Volupine extends

A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair. Lights, lights,
She entertains Sir Ferdinand

Klein. Who clipped the lion’s wings

And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
—Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws.
 SWEENEY AMONG THE
NIGHTINGALES
ὤμοι, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πγελὴν ἔσω
why should i speak of the nightingale?
the nightingale sings of adulterous wrong.

peneck
Sweeney
spreads his
knees
Letting his
arms hang
down to laugh,
The zebra
stripes along
his jaw
Swelling to
maculate
giraffe.

The circles of
the stormy
moon
Slide
westward to the River Plate,
Death and the Raven drift above
And Sweeney guards the horned gate.

Gloomy Orion and the Dog

Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas;
The person in the Spanish cape
 Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees

Slips and pulls the table cloth

Overturns a coffee cup,
Reorganised upon the floor
She yawns and draws a stocking up;

The silent man in mocha brown

Sprawls at the window sill and gapes;
The waiter brings in oranges,
Bananas, figs and hot-house grapes;

The silent vertebrate exhales,

Contracts and concentrates, withdraws;
Rachel née Rabinovitch
Tears at the grapes with murderous paws;

She and the lady in the cape

Are suspect, thought to be in league;
Therefore the man with heavy eyes
Declines the gambit, shows fatigue,

Leaves the room and reappears

Outside the window, leaning in,
Branches of wistaria
Circumscribe a golden grin;

The host with someone indistinct

Converses at the door apart,
The nightingales are singing near
The convent of the Sacred Heart,

And sang within the bloody wood

When Agamemnon cried aloud
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonoured shroud.
 SWEENEY ERECT
And the trees about me
Let them be dry & leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; & behind me
Make all a desolation. Look, Look, wenches!

aint me a
cavernous
waste shore
Cast in the
unstilled
Cyclades,
Paint me the
bold
anfractuous
rocks
Faced by the
snarled and
yelping seas.

Display me
Æolus above
Reviewing
the insurgent
gales
Which tangle Ariadne’s hair
And swell with haste the perjured sails.

Morning stirs the feet and hands

(Nausicaa and Polypheme);
Gesture of orang-outang
 Rises from the sheets in steam.

This withered root of knots of hair

Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth;
The sickle motion from the thighs

Jackknifes upward at the knees

Then straightens down from heel to hip
Pushing the framework of the bed
And clawing at the pillow slip.

Sweeney addressed full-length to shave

Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.

(The lengthened shadow of a man

Is history, says Emerson,
Who had not seen the silhouette
Of Sweeney straddled in the sun).

Tests the razor on his leg

Waiting until the shriek subsides;
The epileptic on the bed
Curves backward, clutching at her sides.

The ladies of the corridor

Find themselves involved, disgraced;
Call witness to their principles
Deprecate the lack of taste

Observing that hysteria

Might easily be misunderstood;
Mrs. Turner intimates
It does the house no sort of good.

But Doris towelled from the bath

 Enters padding on broad feet,
Bringing sal volatile
And a glass of brandy neat.
 MR. ELIOT’S SUNDAY
MORNING SERVICE
“Look, look master, here comes two of the
religious caterpillars”.

JEW OF MALTA

olyphiloproge
nitive
The sapient
sutlers of the
Lord
Drift across the
window-panes.
In the
beginning was
the Word.

In the
beginning was
the Word,
Superfetation
of το εν
And at the
mensual turn of
time
Produced enervate Origen.

A painter of the Umbrian school

Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptised God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
 But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the unoffending feet
And there above the painter set
The father and the Paraclete.

The sable presbyters approach

The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching piaculative pence,

Under the penitential gates

Sustained by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.

Along the garden-wall the bees

With hairy bellies pass between
The staminate and pistilate:
Blest office of the epicene.

Sweeney shifts from ham to ham

Stirring the water in his bath.
The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath.
 WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY
ebster was
much
possessed by
death
And saw the
skull beneath
the skin;
And breastless
creatures under
ground
Leaned
backward with
a lipless grin.

Daffodil bulbs
instead of balls
Stared from
the sockets of
the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

Donne, I suppose, was such another

Who found no substitute for sense
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience

He knew the anguish of the marrow

The ague of the skeleton;
No contact possible to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.