Why does Veblen say that "temperament" (p. 423) may be the most important difference between the sexes?

Does the survival of vicarious leisure & consumption among middle-class wives support Veblen's theory of the leisure class?

Who is the audience for the mandatory show of "pecuniary strength" (p.437)?

What other explanations might there be for the relatively low level of savings among the urban classes (p. 439)?

When Veblen says that "the term 'waste'...is not to be taken in an odious sense" (p. 444), is he being ironic?

Are the professions with the highest status still those that are the least productive?

Are the activities of human culture, such as art, literature, & music "wasteful" expenditures of behavior, or are they, in Veblen's view, "useful?"

Is there anything in Veblen to remedy current economic conditions?

Why does Eliot only "sometimes" wonder what Krishna meant (DS III)?

Who is the "first-met stranger" of "Little Gidding" II?

What is the relation of the "still point" to the "dance" ("Burnt Norton" II, etc.)?

Is "pattern" discredited in "East Coker" II?

Why are the poems called "quartets?'

Must the reader endorse Eliot's religious views to judge "Four Quartets" a success?

Is "Four Quartets" anti-sex, antisocial, and/or anti-life?

Eliot helped revive Donne's reputation. Are there similarities in their poetry?

Does Donne manage to overcome your disgust with the flea? If so, how?

How does the speaker's argument in "The Flea" change from one stanza to the next?

Can you paraphrase & explicate the 3rd stanza of "The Relic?"

Why the parenthetical swipe at women in ll.3-4 of "The Relic?"

How is it creditable to the lovers of "...Mourning" that they do not understand their love (5th stanza, l.2)?

Is the compass imagery that concludes "...Mourning" confused?

What does the speaker hope to accomplish by asking his beloved's permission to weep before they are separated?

Do the two valedictory poems contradict each other, or can they be reconciled?

Is "the picture of Christ crucified" in the divine meditation "beauteous?"