I am sorry to say, Dear, that I could not connect most of the lines of your precis to the actual paragraph.. Hope you don't mind..

Here is mine one..

For ages, art has been blamed for evoking our previously experienced negative emotions and destabilizing our moral life. Plato considered poetical imagination as something abetting us, Tolstoy called it an infection. But art or poetry contains emotions that do not belong to past; rather present and live. Secondly, the emotions that the art possesses are not actual; they are just an imitation of the real and this imitation serves to clarify the nature and causes etc of these emotions and this clarification enables us to control them, not controlled by them. Shakespeare also seems to present a similar theory in his dramas that art is a mirror to the reality, not the reality itself.

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