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2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given at the end in your own words. (20)

Poetry is the language of imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human min. it comes home to the bosoms and business of men: for nothing but what comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject of poetry. Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else. Whatever there is a sense of beauty, or power, or harmony, as in the motion of the waves of the sea, in the growth of a flower, there is a poetry in its birth. If history is a grave study, poetry may be said to be graver, its materials lie deeper, and are spread wider. History treats, for the most part, cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things, the empty cases in which the affairs of the world are packed, under the heads of intrigue or war, in different states, and from century to century but there is no thought or feeling that can have entered into the mind of man which he would be eager to communicate to others, or they would listen to with delight, that is not a fit subject for poetry. It is not a branch of authorship: it is “the stuff of which our life is made”. The rest is mere oblivision, a dead letter, for all that is worth remembering gin life is the poetry of it. Fear is Poetry, hope is poetry, love is poetry; hatred is poetry. Poetry is that fine particle within us that expands, refines, raises our whole being; without “man’s life is poor as beasts”. In fact, man is a poetical animal. The child Is a poet when he first plays hide and seek, or repeats the story of Jack the Giant Killer, the shepherd – boy is a poet when he first crowns his mistress with a garland of flowers; the countryman when he stops he stops to look at the rainbow; the miser when he hugs his gold; the courtier when he builds his hope upon a smile; the vain, the ambitious the proud, the choleric man, the hero and the coward, the beggar and the king, all live in a world of their own making; and the poet does no more than describe what all others think and act. Hazlitt

(a) In what sense is poetry the language of the imagination and the passion?
(b) How is poetry the Universal Language of the heart?
(c) What is the difference between history and poetry?
(d) Explain the phrase: “Man is a poetical animal”.
(e) What are some of the actions which Hazlitt calls poetry and its doers poet?
(f) Explain the followings underlined expression in the passage.
(i) It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human heart
(ii) A sense of beauty, or power, or harmony.
(iii) Cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things.
(iv) It is the stuff of which our life is made.
(v) The poet does no more than describe what all others think and act.

a) In what sense is poetry the language of the imagination and the passion?
Ans:Because poetry depicts your feelings and thoughts.

b) How is poetry the Universal Language of the heart?

Ans:It is the universal language of the heart because every body in this world feels the same feelings of love, hatred , anger or any type of feeling in the same way as others do and almost thinks in the same way as others think although their views differ .And poetry depicts all this.

(c) What is the difference between history and poetry?

Ans:History only records the events and affairs of life and is quite borring and difficult to understand and it does not arouse any feeling.Where as poetry is interesting and depicts your feelings and thoughts.

(d) Explain the phrase: “Man is a poetical animal”.

Ans:The writter says that without poetry man is beast.And it is poetry which develops his thoughts and feelings and ultimately brings him to the status of poetical animal.He was trying to make us understand that if beast knew poetry it would become man.

(e) What are some of the actions which Hazlitt calls poetry and its doers poet?
He calls a child poet when he plays hide and seek or when he repeates some story; he calls the newly wed shepherd_boy a poet when he imagins her wife as a queen;he calls a courtier a poet when he courts his patron and so on.

(f) Explain the followings underlined expression in the passage.

(i) It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to human heart
Ans:In poetry a man expresses his thoughts and feelings of happiness or melancholy.

(ii) A sense of beauty, or power, or harmony.
Ans:What ever we sense whether it be of beauty like in growing flower or it be of vigour or harmony like in the too and fro motion of waves in sea ,all is poetry.

(iii) Cumbersome and unwieldy masses of things.
Ans:Here writer explains about history that it is complex and many events are depicted in such way which does not arouse any feeling and are difficult to digest and so causes boredom.

(iv) It is the stuff of which our life is made.
Ans:Here writter says that the history is only the record of our affairs and events .


(v) The poet does no more than describe what all others think and act.[/B]
Here he says that the poet only presents the thoughts and actions of man in his poetry and there is nothing unique in it.


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