Hello, I am Emisha Ravani. In this blog we are supposed to do practical criticism of given poem by Dr.Dilip Barad.In this task we are not allowed to read the background of the poem, The writer, The Period of the poem or the situation in which the poem is written, keeping the poem away from its external connections. We are just going to do the texual or physical analysis.
In this task i am going to deal- with the poem:
Oh Jerusalem, the city of sorrow
A big tear wandering in the eye
Who will halt the aggression
On you, the pearl of religions?
Who will wash your bloody walls?
Who will safeguard the Bible?
Who will rescue the Quran?
Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?
Who will save man?
(Nizar Qabbani: “Jerusalem! My Love,My Town:)
A big tear wandering in the eye
Who will halt the aggression
On you, the pearl of religions?
Who will wash your bloody walls?
Who will safeguard the Bible?
Who will rescue the Quran?
Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ?
When we look at this poem very first time, We can get that this is the poem where specker and listener are there. Because the first line of poem is in the form of adreessing to something or someone. This is the general idea of the first outlook. Then as we go further we will reach to the "Jerusalem", there we find that here the poet talks about a city if we are aware about the places. He says that "the city of sorrow", we can find the tragic flow towards "Jerusalem".
Furtherly, "A big tear wandering in the eye", it seems like "A cry of a city". From the third line of the poem, Poet starts the questioning. But here we should concern about the one's 'anxiety' in the form of questioning. And on going poet continuesly asking questions like,
On you, the pearl of religions? Who will wash your bloody walls? Who will safeguard the Bible? Who will rescue the Quran? Who will save Christ, From those who have killed Christ? Who will save man?
By, these questions the poets may showing the historical contaxt of the city Jerusalem.The holy city which was situated in Israel. (we can see here the history of the city Jerusalem). And also poet wants to show the sorrow of the poeple after wars. Poet tried to neglected the scary religious prectices and ideas.
When we look to the last line we can find that there is said that "Who will save man?". It is showing that poet is craving or insisting Humanity over any religious perspectives.
UNDERSTANDING THE ZEITGEIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY : FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE ERA OF GREAT DICTATOR
Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, Writing this blog as response to the thinking activity given by Dr.Dilip Barad. For The movie screening of Modern Times and Great Dictators. Here i will discuss frame study of The Graet Dictator.
'The Great Dictator' is a satirical movie rather than comic one. It is American comedy movie, in the time of 1940. And it is satire on Adolf Hitler. It is the movie which is very successful at that time and till today we can find. And the two main characters are like,
We can easily find that it is about world war time of Hitlar, 1918.
This frame is showing that Hynkel party takes power. It means the dictator is going to kill many people.
Here, We can see that how propaganda is working by setting of symbol of own paery.
Adolf Hitler was one, Who had power of political speech. Too huge amount of people used to come to listen him. This is very significance to look to this frame, which is telling that "only the voice of Hynkel was heard."
This is how peaple were used to "Hail! Hynkel".This statue has satireical tone even.
"Ghetto" is the place where Jews were living there.
At the jew's places or shops, Hynkel's people come and write 'jew'. So it is directly atteck to economy.
Hynkel was so greedy to get rule over the entire world and this frame is helping us to see his greed.
How people were shifting thier self to another place cause of the Hynkel's harrecement.
The last statement of Hynkel is too affective as we can this only sentence How at last whe was craving for the real estimate.
The positive tone of entire film is this emotion of Hannah.
UNDERSTANDING THE ZEITGEIST OF 20TH CENTURY : FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE ERA OF GREAT DICTATOR
Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog as response to the thinking activity given by Dr. Dilip Barad. For the movie screening Modern Times and Great Dictator. Here i will discuss frame study.First we will have look on The Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, where he worked as directed and other all work to make the movie.
These both are the protagonists of the movie. The male protagonist is The Tramp and The female protagonist is The Orphan girl who is alone. They both are represnting the of 1936.
This is the frame which is showing certificate of the cencer british board
of that time.
Charlie Chaplin was multitasking person and he did all the various works to make movie by his own.
This is very significant frame of the movie like, it is the beggining of modern age and also that how people following the clock in the workplace.
In the clock , There is 6 o'clock. Perhaps it is showing that the sunset of humanization. Or rise of industrialization and mechanization.
These above two frames are showing the similar situation of the sheeps and people of that time. The
This frame is for look on urbanization. How people were suffering by the machinaries.
Here the factory owner is playing with jigsaw puzzle.
This frame is saying that how different times represent what is the matters
Assembly lines are the most commonly used method in the mass production of products. They are reduce labor costs. And the result come out as people become jobless.
The Tramp is working on the giant machine is very famous scene of the movie .
This frame is saying that, How humans were getting struggle into over load of machinary. The situation occured in a only way you have to work for your basic needs.
This is how people were suffering from the starvation and they were jobless so they steal the food and fullfill their own very basic need of hungriness.In a time of period they become thief.
This is the end of the movie where Charlie Chaplin wants to convey the message that struggle will never end in one's life , just do not quit. This is very positive light of the movie."sing, Never mind the words."
The video clip , There was the very rapid flow of inventions. And here the male protagonist is become the victim , Like those men came and the factory owner make him as a trial man. This scene is showing that, How factory owner were having craving for the work though they were not wanting the workers to waste their time into eating.
By the movie screening of The Modern Times(by clicking on this you can reach to the full movie) we can get the very clear idea about the 20th century's various aspects.
Movie Screening - Vita and Virginia by Chanya Button
Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog for the movie screening which was held by Vaidehi Hariyani ma'am . which was based on Virginia Woolf's life ,an incident that turns out to be a novel of hers " Orlando: A Biography", an unerstanding of sex/gender/orintation and a movie based on Virginia Woolf and a female lover.
Set in the 1920s, the writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf move in different London circles. When they meet, Vita decides Virginia will be her next conquest. They have an affair against the background of each of their open marriages.
THE MIND CAN ONLY FLY SO FAR FROM THE BODY BEFORE IT RETURNS TO THE CONSTRAINTS TO THE LIFE.
· How far do you feel that Orlando is influenced by Vita and Virginia’s love affair? Does it talk only about that or do you find anything else too?
Woolf and Vita Sackville-West were both members of the Bloomsbury group, which was known for its liberal views on sexuality. The two began a sexual and romantic relationship that lasted for a decade, and continued as a friendship long after that. This inspiration is confirmed by Woolf herself, who noted in her diary the idea of Orlando on 5 October 1927: "And instantly the usual exciting devices enter my mind: a biography beginning in the year 1500 and continuing to the present day, called Orlando: Vita; only with a change about from one sex to the other".
Sackville-West's son, wrote, "The effect of Vita on Virginia is all contained in Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, in which she explores Vita, weaves her in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds,teases her, flirts with her, drops a veil of mist around her.
· Who do you think is confused about their identity Vita or Virginia? Explain with illustrations.
When we watch the movie Vita and Virginia we can find the identity crisis in the character of Vita mainly.A period of uncertainly and confusion in which a person's sense of identity becomes insecure, typically due to a change in their expected aims or role in society. you are questioning who you are , overall or with regards to certain life aspect such as relationships. you are experiencing great personal conflict due to the questioning of who you are or your role in society. Big changes have occurred that have effected your sense of self ,such as relationships and departure.
· What is society’s thought about women and identity? Do you agree with them? If Yes then why? If no then why?
In the society , there are so many issues with men and women identities we can find. But when we look specifically to the women we find many crises among them. i would like to bigin with the very common is PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, for example women are expected to be thin and graceful. which is stereotypical to the perticular xender. YOUR THOUGHTS ARE BLACK ,WOMEN ARE'NT.
· What are your views on Gender Identity? Will you like to give any message to society?
Your gender identity is HOW YOU FEEL INSIDE AND HOW YOU EXPRESS THOSE FEELINGS. Clothing, appearence,and behaviours can all be ways to express your gender identity. Most people feel that they are either male or female. The main thing is only that WHAT WE FEEL . I would like give a message that we are born here to live our own life, to feel every aspect of life, to too much to feel. we should celebrate other souls rathen than judge them by the our so called and ugly thoughts. Whatever we have got or they provided us, It is not by our choices. everyone has thier own way of feel and own identity.
· Write a note on the direction of the movie. Which symbols and space caught your attention while watching the moive?
In the movie, We can find that there is an incident when Virginia had having psychological disorder and there is scene when so many birds were arriving upon her head and she could not stay stable mentally. This scene is showing the whole mental situation of Virginia. Another thing is in the entire movie there are scenes which are related to psychic freedom. Like when Vita come to meet Virginia and she leaved ,Virginia come into her room she was visulizing the leaves of trees in whole room, wherever she throw the eyesights. 'Freedom of Expression of love' by writing when they both are writing latters to each other. Threr are many symblos of love in a romantic way.
"Vita and Virginia" had to be made into Bollywood Adaptation, who do you think would be fit for the role of Vita and Virginia? "Vita and Virginia" had to be made into Bollywood Adaptation, I think for Vita's character PRIYANKA CHOPRA and Virginia's character DEEPIKA PADUKONE.
Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog for the thinking activity given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. Here I will discuss the things like Highlights of 'The Setting' by A.C.Ward's views about Twentieth Century English Literature. And another is Representation of India in 20th Century European Literature.
This image is showing the different ages of the history of english literature. Now we will ses the highlights of 'The Setting' by A. C. Ward.
Highlights of 'The Setting'
Firstly, whenever we look to the different ages we can find that when time Or era is near to us we can't look towards it by proper perspective. But as it old then we can by proper perspective. It was the time of human race. Man's growing mastery of the physical world and it's material resources.
' Progression' ' Regression' ' Scientific Revolution' ' Home institution' ' Victorianism ' ' Started having materiality' ' Mental Sickness' ' Advancement of Science and Technology' ' Spirit of Questioning' ' Interrogative Habit of Mind' ' Death of Craftsmanship' ' Anti- Art Movement' ' Religion and Politics' ' Untutored Young People' ' Bloomsbury Group and Fabian Society' ' Dictatorial Intellectualism to Escapism' ' Anti Hero'
' Personality Cult'
Now we will see these all above highlights of the particular time. In Victorian age there was home institution. Which was imposed upon them by somebody so it has broken very soon. In victorianism there was more control of experts voice , authorities, at that time people were not questioning and people were taking everything as granted. They were very religious people and religion was hypocrite. Young men and young women during the twentieth century looked back upon the Victorian age as dull and hypocritical. Victorian ideals appeared mean and superficial and stupid. From 1901 to 1925, English literature was directed by mental attitudes, moral ideals and spiritual values at almost the opposite extreme to the attitudes, ideals and values governing Victorian literature. Then people started having materiality at outside world at the cost of spirituality. Whenever the materiality come in this way it bring also the mental sickness. So easily at that time it occurred there also. Man's need for redemption, so to fulfill it religious literature comes like T. S. Eliot's 'The wast land' and many others. Among early twentieth century writers, the Victorian idea of the permanence of institutions was displaced by the sense of a universal mutability. H G Wells spoke of 'the flow of things', and elsewhere described a company of people as 'haunted by the idea that embodies itself in the word "Meanwhile" '. He goes on: 'in the measure in which one saw life plainly the world ceased to be a home and became the mere sight of a home. On which we camped. Unable as yet to live fully and completely. Later, he speaks of 'all this world of ours being no more than the prelude to a real civilisation'. It was the time when advancement of science and technology happened a lot. From that people get advantage and disadvantage both. Then there spirit of questioning was growing a lot. The change of outlook that came with the twentieth century was due to the growth of a restless desire to probe and question. Bernard Shaw, foremost among the heralds of change, attacked with vigour the 'old superstition' of religion and the 'new superstition' of science, not because he was antagonistic to either religion or science as such, but because, in his view, every dogma is a superstition until it has been personally examined and consciously accepted by the individual believer. Question! Examine! Test! These were the watchwords of his creed. He let slip no opportunity to challenge the Voice of Authority and the Reign of the expert.
Then there was development of interrogative habit of mind. And people started to think Interrogativly. Because of technology there happened one thing that's death of craftsmanship. Victorians were more religious and modern men were politics from the environment. In the Victorian time people were spreading Christianity rapidly. And then modern men came and they are proved as untutored Young people and emotionally susptible. So in how first there was driven force was religion and then nation. There was the groups of people who were known as Bloomsbury Group and Fabian Society. Bloomsbury group was working for freedom in life. Fabian society was working in welfare for the people. In the different ways they were working. Also there was a notable movement that is Anti hero movement and it known as 'Angry Young Men '. Works are like ' lucky jim' and ' look back in anger' as examples. In conclusion part A. C. Ward says about personality cult, it means that when somebody get obsessively admiration which is accessible by those personalities. And at that time such strong personalities were there.
India in the Twentieth Century European Literature
1.Rudyard Kipling: Kim (1901)
2.E M Forster: A Passage to India (1924)
3.T S Eliot: The Waste Land (1918-22)
4.Herman Hesse: Siddhartha (1922)
5.Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1927)
6.H.G. Wells: Around the World in Eighty Days (1872-73)
Indian literature in English evolved alongside the consolidation of British imperialism in India. There is a variety of opinion about the first definitive Indian text in English, although critics agree that Indian literature in English dates back to at least the early nineteenth century. Its beginnings receive their impetus from three sources: the British government’s educational reforms, the work of missionaries, and the reception of English language and literature by upper-class Indians. First, there are the educational reforms called for by both the 1813 Charter Act and the 1835 English Education Act of William Bentinck. In an effort to redress some of the avaricious, hence compromising, practices of the East India Company servants, the English Parliament approved the Charter Act, which made England responsible for the educational improvement of the natives. The subsequent English Education Act, prompted by Thomas Babington Macaulay’s (in)famous minute on Indian education, made English the medium of Indian education and English literature a disciplinary subject in Indian educational institutions.
The decades of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s witnessed cataclysmic changes, as discourses of nationalism and colonialism collided, even as India was thrust into modern conditions of living and thinking. These years produced three Indian novelists, often referred to as the three “greats” of Indian literature in English: Mulk Raj Anand (1905), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Raja Rao (1909). At the crossroads where discourses of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity intersected and began to mutually inform one another, Anand, Narayan, and Rao tackled the issues of the time in strikingly different ways: Anand through the social idealist’s vision of Marx; Narayan through the comic-satirist’s recording of everyday life in the fictitious town, Malgudi; and Rao through the Brahmin philosopher’s caste-inflected ruminations on Indian culture.
Kim is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier (Kimball O'Hara Sr., a former colour sergeant and later an employee of an Indian railway company) and a poor Irish mother (a former nanny in a colonel's household) who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, a pashtun horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service. Kim is so immersed in the local culture that few realise he is a white child, although he carries a packet of documents from his father entrusted to him by an Indian woman who cared for him.
‘When someone seeks,’ said Siddhartha, ‘then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.’” — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Siddhartha is not the conventional story of the Buddha that we all know and adore. It’s not a story about the Buddha at all. The book chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the same time as the Buddha. It’s an interesting take on an age-old tale, and we are invited along quite an extraordinary journey, experiencing Siddhartha’s highs, lows, loves, and disappointments along the way. Drawing parallels with Buddha, Hesse shows us the life of a privileged Brahmin’s son who grows increasingly dissatisfied with the life expected of him. As with the Buddha, Siddhartha too sets out on a journey that takes him finally to the path of enlightenment, and along the way we get to see the beauty and intricacies of the mind, nature, and experiences. The book does show, in astonishing detail, the inner struggles that all of us can relate to, the suffering we all share, and the fleeting strands of joy and happiness for which we all strive.
Hello, I am Emisha Ravani, writing this blog for the thinking activity of bridge course on T.S. Eliot's 'Teadition and Individual Talent'. Where i will discuss some questions like ,
- Your understanding of the views expressed by Eliot in this essay.
T.S Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is very metaphysical in its concepts; definitions of his main points are only understood within the context of the quantum metaphysical realm. Some of the main points in T.S. Eliot's essay are tradition, isolation, knowledge, and catylyst.For Eliot, the term "tradition" is imbued with a special and complex character. It represents a "simultaneous order," by which Eliot means a historical timelessness – a fusion of past and present – and, at the same time, a sense of present temporality. T.S. Eliot’s essay 'Tradition and Individual Talent' was first published as an anonymous piece in The Egoist, a London literary review, in September and December 1919 and subsequently included by Eliot in his first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, published in 1920. That it continues to exert a genuine influence on thought regarding the interrelationship among literary classics, individual artists, and the nature of the creative imagination, is a comment on its value. In any case, Eliot was able to let loose in this comparatively short essay—it runs to little more than 3,000 words—packing virtually every sentence with pronouncements that, in any other context of presentation, might have required far more elaboration and persuasive defense.
-How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?. - Concept of Tradition here he talks about the figures of past and literary tradition. ( historical timelessness)
Unity of time is expressed by Eliot in Burnt Norton also : “Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.” In Dry Salvages, Eliot defines the sense of tradition in the following manner: “The past experience revived in the meaning Is not the experience of one life only But of many generations, Time the destroyer is time the preserver.” Eliot says that no poet or artist of any kind has his full meaning and significance done. His importance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his kinship with the poets and artists of the past generations. You cannot value him alone, you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the poets and writers of the past. This, Eliot says, is a principle of aesthetic, and not merely of historical criticism. The necessity for the individual talent to conform to tradition is not one-sided; what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.’
"The whole of the literature of Europe from Homer"- T.S.Eliot
"Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you must obtain it by great labour."
According to T. S. Eliot, tradition is significant for the critic as well as for the creative writer. As he was the both poet and creative writer .Tradition does not mean a sense of inheritance from some past author or merely a sense of belongingness to the past. Tradition is a dynamic force. It does not mean standing still. Tradition is the historical sense and not the handing down, or following the ways of the ancients blindly. It cannot be inherited. It can only be obtained with great labour. It involves a historical sense which enables a poet to perceive not only the pastness of the past but also its presentness. In a nut shell T.S. Eliot insist hard work of the writer.
-Theory of Depersonalization -Poet's sense of tradition and impersonality of poetry are complementary things. - Novelty It means that all the writers shuld keep in mind that all the new creations are already in the Tradition. They must follow their past writers to create novelty even. Nothing can be begin from the zero but everything has it's past. and it should be noted . - Personal Emotions Great works never express poet's personal emotions. Sucessful poetry always remain impersonal and independent , also he says that those poetries be immortal . Further it include into Literary Tradition. T.S.Eliot has done the objection to HAMLET by Shakespeare, as he wrote the work ' Hamlet and his problems ' and there delt with the issue OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE. We can compare T.S.Eliot with Sir Philip Sidney and S.T. Coleridge . As he was poet and literary critic both. - Escape from Emotion This essay is attack on ROMANTICISM perticulerly the idea the poen is poet's personal expression.
-What do you understand by Historical Sense? (Use these quotes to explain your understanding) "The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence" This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
T.S. Eliot says that how historical sense should be connected to the modern works of art. Furthur he says that all the new writers should read and follow the old authors, and also they must include that tradition.
-What is the relationship between “tradition” and “the individual talent,” according to the poet T. S. Eliot? Eliot advocates for the separation of art from artist and argues that tradition has less to do with imitation and more to do with understanding and expanding upon the intellectual and literary context in which one is writing.
-Explain: "Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum". it is not desirable to confine knowledge to whatever can be put into a useful shape for examinations, drawing-rooms, or the still more pretentious modes of publicity. Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that the poet must develop or procure the consciousness of the past and that he should continue to develop this consciousness throughout his career.
-Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry" There are many people who appreciate the expression of sincere emotion in verse, and there is a smaller number of people who can appreciate technical excellence. But very few know when there is an expression of significant emotion, emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet.
-How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of depersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum. T.S.Eliot gives an example of chemical process to explain his theory of depersonalization to create Sulphur dioxide, platinum is used as a catalyst, but when it is prepared we do not see platinum any more in the solution. Similarly, to create poetry, poet's mind works as a catalyst but we do not see his mind in his poetry.
-Explain: " Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." Eliot’s argument is a little more complicated than it first appears. It’s often assumed that Eliot is saying that, because poetic personality doesn’t matter, the poet’s self doesn’t matter either: poetry is impersonal in that it could come from anyone, if only they read the right books and set to work. But as the critic C. K. Stead argued in his brilliant The New Poetic: Yeats to Eliot , Eliot’s talk of escape from personality is not actually a call to escape from the self but a call to escape further into the self.
-Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic'. 1.Old orthodoxies and erected new ones
2. insisting tradition more than trends
here this video will provide you the understanding of this essay by T.S.Eliot .
Hello, I'm Emisha Ravani, writing this blog on WORDSWORTH'S PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS. Which is thinking activity given by Dr. Dilip Barad. Where I will discuss about some of the question like,
1.what is your understanding of views expressed in Wordsworth's Preface?
 "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth is an epoch-making contribution to English literature. It is a landmark of literary criticism. Wordsworth has declared a break of the Neo-classical tradition in English poetry through this piece. He has discussed the characteristics of a poet, his functions and his dominions elaborately. Ordinary life is the best subject for poetry. Wordsworth uses common man's language. Everyday language is best suited for poetry Expression of feeling is more important than action or plot. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion" that "takes its origin from emotion, recollected in tranquility." - William Wordsworth
2.What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of 'Classicism' and 'Romanticism'?
"The Solitary Reaper" is a poem about music: the song a Scottish girl sings as she cuts hay with a sickle. Though the poem's narrator cannot understand what the girl is actually singing about, the girl's song sticks with him, its melancholy beauty echoing in his head “long after” its sound has faded. The Rape of the Lock was written by Alexander Pope and first published in 1712, then reworked and published again in 1714. The poem is a mock-epic that satirizes the upper-class in London at the time. The story focuses on the central character, Belinda, whose lock of hair is cut off at a social gathering. The principle distinction between neoclassicism and romanticism is that neoclassicism focuses on objectivity, reason, and Intellect. While romanticism stresses on human creativity, nature, and emotions or feelings. The romanticism movement has influenced various topics, styles, and themes.
Classicism - intellect Romanticism - imagination Classicism - restraint Romanticism - freedom Classicism - rely to the classist Romanticism - rely to the medivial figures
3.Why does Wordsworth say 'What' is poet? rather than Who is poet?
The language of a poet is not different from that of other men. Wordsworth says, " A poet is a man speaking to men. " Basically there is no difference among the poets and the common men. A poet can be different from other men not in kind but only in degree. He has a comprehensive soul, inner insight and a power to express which want in common men. His passions, thoughts, and feelings will be the general passions, thoughts and feelings of mankind. He thinks and feels in the spirit of human passions. Therefore, the poet's language cannot differ in any material degree from the language of all other men who feel vividly and see clearly.
4.What is poetic diction? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his Preface?
William Wordsworth says that personifications of abstract ideas are by no means a natural or regular part of the real language of men. He has also taken pains to avoid the use of what is called "poetic diction". He does it to bring the language of his poems near to the language of men. He has tried to express his ideas in language fitted to their respective importance. Wordsworth further says that metre is superadded. Metre adds the beauty to the poem. He wants to avoid figurative language in poems. The poetic diction is the essay as suggested by Wordsworth applies the “real language of men”. He has selected it to communicate and connect it with the other men and common people. He further adds that the selection of the common language can add “vivid sensation” and “pleasure” to the readers as each and every poem has its own “purpose” to share and evoke “pleasure” to the readers. In addition to this, the selection of such poetic diction to impart the “incidents and situations from common life”. It is only possible for Wordsworth to impart these poetic themes in the poem only with the “real language of men”. He even stated that it will add a “certain colouring of imagination” on the readers so to evoke the ” state of excitement” which the common people share in their everyday lives. The “real language of men” will enable the other men can relate “the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement”.
5.What is poetry?
it is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings with emotions recollected in tranquility. Hence, first see and perceive you then recollect and restore them. Memorize and recollect. The scenery, landscape and the silence around with the pictures and images of their own tend to our feelings and emotions.
6.Discuss 'Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud' with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed.
‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ is one of the best-loved poems of the fountainhead of romanticism William Wordsworth. This poem features how the spontaneous emotions of the poet’s heart sparked by the energetic dance of daffodils help him pen down this sweet little piece. On 15 April 1802, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a host of daffodils around Glencoyne Bay in the Lake District. This event was the inspiration behind the composition of Wordsworth’s lyric poem. ‘Daffodils’ or ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ has been dissected methodically for illustrating the poet’s mood, the surrounding location, the allegorical meanings, and the beauty of nature in full motion. The poet’s love and proximity with nature have inspired and moved generations after generations of poetry lovers and young minds.
, Eliot’s talk of escape from personality is not actually a call to escape from the self but a call to escape further into the self.
