The poem 'Mr Bleaney' is written in a ____ form.
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Correct answer: C. dramatic
Explanation
It opens with the landlady's reported speech and unfolds as a dramatic monologue.
Note: Passage II is Philip Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney' (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. The speaker takes the shabby rented room of the departed Mr Bleaney, whose landlady recalls his dull routines. He comes to fear that how one lives — 'one hired box' — may measure one's worth.
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