The poet as a critic

THE POET AS A CRITIC

1. A critic says: Tragedy satisfies us even in the moment of our distress". Pl resolve this paradoxical statement.
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   Answer: tragedy, multiplying by tragedy, is neutralized. Catharsis occurs. The nervous system protects itself.

2. D.H. Lawrence conceives the world in the form.of polarities. Are they really opposites? Or complements.
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   Answer: everything opposite - attracted or repelled - complements each other.

3. Aristotle observes: superiority of poetry over history consists in its possessing a higher truth and a higher seriousness. Pl define what is higher truth and how it is not upheld, if not altogether falsified by History?
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   Answer: Poetry is a formula for thought. History is a formula for action in any sense.

4. Tragedy has always taken the centre stage in literature. Why is comedy a marginalized value?
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   Answer: The tragic and the comic are quite individual in perception. Now there is a mutual penetration of one into another. Views change, templates are updated. Brilliant creativity is not marginal.

5. What literature adds to or substracts from life that it becomes liveable, and quite often, a cherishable experience?
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   Answer: A treasure trove of ancient knowledge and insight into the future through intuition.

6. Poetry is the mother of all genres. When in distress, we cry and run to our mother. And in love too, a young man bursts out singing.  Do you think it is poetry (not prose)  that rules human emotions?
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   Answer: The music of poetry and prose rules.

7. A good poem challenges the reader, and alters his perceptions. How you describe the role of the poet?
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   Answer: The genius poet is the guide of the era!

8. History is all about human limits. How does  poetry help man to surpass himself?
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   Answer: A short way of enriching neurons in the brain.

9. The more you say, the less you become. Is it true about a poet?
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   Answer: not everyone can perceive and understand the poet; the undeveloped brain of the listener quickly gets tired and turns off.

10. What is the difference between a "whole" experience,  and a total sum of parts? What makes poetic experience " whole" while what history or other subjects give us is "sum of all parts" which is not the "whole" experience?
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   Answer: In poetry - through action, harmony of parts - give wholeness. The story is concrete in the moment, wide in scope, more unexpected and illogical. Poetry absorbs the history of events and creates its own ocean out of its universe.