Instructions

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Passage:

D. H. Lawrence - 1885 - 1930: The Supreme Triumph For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture, that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is the part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet below know the perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am a part of the human race, my soul is an inorganic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is a part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. - Apocalypse, 1931.

Question 116

The most suitable title for this passage would be -

Solution

The most suitable title for this passage is d) "Alive and Kicking" because it captures the central theme of D. H. Lawrence's writing: the celebration of being vividly and fully alive in the present moment. 

The passage emphasizes the "supreme triumph" of living in the flesh, connected to the cosmos, nature, and humanity, and it urges a joyful, rapturous embrace of life. While the other options—a) "The Surface of the Waters", b) "My Mind", and c) "The Human Race"—touch on elements mentioned in the text, they are too narrow and fail to reflect the broader, exuberant focus on life itself. "Alive and Kicking" conveys both the vitality and the active engagement with existence that Lawrence champions.


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