Thinking Activity on Tradition and Individual Talent
1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?
1. How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?
Yes, I'm agree with the Eliot's views. He point out the tradition as that the tradition is matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, you must obtained it by great labour. Talent has no connections with the inhabitants, we have to work hard to catch the talent.
Being a part of tradition we have to do great labour, it involves historical sense which involves appreciation not only of the pastness of past but also it's presence.
2 What do you understand by Historical Sense?
"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"
"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"
The 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.
Historical sense involves a perception. It is not only pastness of past but how past is relevant to the present time.
Historical sense is equal to common sense and it involves wider perimeters or we can say that process of selection. Historical sense is necessary for become a timeless work of art.
3 What is the relationship between “tradition” and “the individual talent,” according to the poet T. S. Eliot?
The relationship between the tradition and the individual talent is interdependence. Both are closely related. Tradition and individual talent are not separate entity.
4. 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".
Eliot demands wide reading to the readers. Readers should have very voracious readers. Then he also finds that Shakespeare seems to be an exception. Shakespeare is not well read writer. He is exceptional. Shakespeare absorbed his age. Eliot says that genius have ability to absorb knowledge through understanding of surroundings.
5 Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
Here we can says that why person is not important in the poetry, Poetry should remove the poet artist from work of art. While we are reading or judging the poetry there should not be any prejudice towards poet. There should be only poetry without any connection with poet.
6 How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of ddepersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum.
To explain depersonalisation, Eliot has connected science with literature with the example of platinum and sulphur-di-oxide. He tries to bring the elements of scientific rigours into the humanities and arts. So3+H2o both were mingled and prepared the sulfuric acid. Platinum is catalyst similar in poet's mind is the catalyst. Eliot says that the unaffected mind that records everything. The unified sensibility of emotions and intellect combined and the harmony of the nearness as well as the distance.
According to Plato poet creates through a grip of frenzy. Aristotle says that no poets makes something, they creats something. Dryden captured the creative process in three different stages 1. Invention, 2. Fertility, 3. Clothing.
7 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."
Poetry is impersonal. Poetry is not expression of emotion. The poet writes the poetry keeping his personal emotions and feelings.
8.Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic'.
We can say that T.S Eliot can be as critique because of his ideas such as:
4. 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".
Eliot demands wide reading to the readers. Readers should have very voracious readers. Then he also finds that Shakespeare seems to be an exception. Shakespeare is not well read writer. He is exceptional. Shakespeare absorbed his age. Eliot says that genius have ability to absorb knowledge through understanding of surroundings.
5 Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
Here we can says that why person is not important in the poetry, Poetry should remove the poet artist from work of art. While we are reading or judging the poetry there should not be any prejudice towards poet. There should be only poetry without any connection with poet.
6 How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of ddepersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum.
To explain depersonalisation, Eliot has connected science with literature with the example of platinum and sulphur-di-oxide. He tries to bring the elements of scientific rigours into the humanities and arts. So3+H2o both were mingled and prepared the sulfuric acid. Platinum is catalyst similar in poet's mind is the catalyst. Eliot says that the unaffected mind that records everything. The unified sensibility of emotions and intellect combined and the harmony of the nearness as well as the distance.
According to Plato poet creates through a grip of frenzy. Aristotle says that no poets makes something, they creats something. Dryden captured the creative process in three different stages 1. Invention, 2. Fertility, 3. Clothing.
7 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."
Poetry is impersonal. Poetry is not expression of emotion. The poet writes the poetry keeping his personal emotions and feelings.
8.Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic'.
We can say that T.S Eliot can be as critique because of his ideas such as:
- He gave the concept of tradition and tradition gives the reader something new, something arresting, something intellectual and something vital for literary conception.
- Eliot has given the concept that conscious past is important rather than only past.
- He describes the concept of historical senses very useful for better understanding of poetic sense or literary sense.
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DeleteVery well written, specifically for the ans of question -8 really apt and impressive one. By reading this I can say that u absorbed T.S.ELIOT'S essays. 😄 keep it up. Keep writing.
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