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CSS paper Precis 2009

Q.2 Make a precis of the given passage and suggest a suitable heading. (20+5)

From Plato to Tolstoi art has been accused of exciting our emotions and thus of disturbing the order and harmony of our moral life. “Poetical imagination, according to Plato, waters our experience of lust and anger, of desire and pain, and makes them grow when they ought to starve with drought. “Tolstoi sees in art a source of infection. “Not only in infection,” he says, “a sign of art, but the degree of infectiousness is also the sole measure of excellence in art.” But the flaw in this theory is obvious. Tolstoi suppresses a fundamental moment of art, the moment of form. The aesthetic experience – the experience of contemplation – is a different state of mind from the coolness of our theoretical and the sobriety of our moral judgment. It is filled with the liveliest energies of passion, but passion itself is here transformed both in its nature and in its
meaning. Wordsworth defines poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility”. But the tranquility we feel in
great poetry is not that of recollection. The emotions aroused by the poet do not belong to a remote past. They are “here”-alive and immediate. We are aware of their full strength, but this strength tends in a new direction. It is rather seen than immediately felt. Our passions are no longer dark and impenetrable powers; they become, as it were, transparent. Shakespeare never gives us an aesthetic theory. He does not speculate about the nature of art. Yet in the only passage in which he speaks of the character and function of dramatic art the whole stress is laid upon this point. “The purpose of playing,” as Halmet explains, “both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as, twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” But the image of a passion is not the passion itself. The poet who represents a passion does not infect us with this passion. At a Shakespeare play we are not infected with the ambition of Macbeth, with the cruelty of Richard III, or with the jealousy of Othello. We are not at the mercy of these emotions; we look through them; we seem to penetrate into their very nature and essence. In this respect Shakespeare’s theory of dramatic art, if he had such a theory, is in complete agreement with the conception of the fine arts of the great painters and sculptors.








Theory of aesthetic experience
The affect of emotions

Art, has been charged as arousing the individual's emotions that have affects on the lives of individuals. Plato maintain that art develops undesirable emotions. While Tolstoi art is an infection whose intensity measures one's skill in art. He oppresses the aesthetic experience which is a fundamental form of art and has different state of mind. The emotions aroused in this case is filled with enthusiasm and their meaning and nature differs in this situation. Wordsworth consider poetry as the emotions that have aroused in calmness rather it is the one's feeling about the poetry. The emotions that excite by the poet are immediate and have power of exciting the inner feelings of individual. Shakespeare theory of dramatic art explains the function of art as thinking about himself. The individual cannot calls the image of emotion as emotion does not has power of affecting one's emotions. One can only see through these emotions. Shakespeare's theory of art are in consent with the artists of fine arts.