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Question SA-2. Here is the text reference (p. 151/4):
This is a complex movement, with many roots and manifestations. It had
a strong Greco-Roman classical element, but the liveliest influences were
French Parnassianism and symbolism. The name of French Parnassianism was
derived from Mount Parnassus, the Greek mountain sacred to Apollo and the
muses. The tendency emphasized the form of what was written over the social
or political content, which was of little interest. Art was "for art's
sake", and was frequently disconnected from the real world. Its symbols
were the beautiful but cold statues of marble and the swan, an animal of
great and pure physical beauty, but of little practical use. The other major
root, French symbolism, used poetry to obtain musical effects through the
sounds of words and the rhythm of the verse.