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Prec of CE 1971


Title: What poetry deals with actually?

Precis: Poetry deals with the experiences of all people despite its association with one individual.It motivates a poet to write any verse that encompass the inclinations from various elements.Political poetry is not easy to write as it does not suit with the environment of poet.He put all the events in poetic form but it does not have effect naturally on the people who read it.

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http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-past-...71-1999-a.html

The essence of poetry is that it deals with events which concern a large number of people and can be grasped not as immediate personal experience but as matter known largely from heresy and presented in simplified and often abstract forms. it is thus the antithesis of all poetry which deals with the special, individual activity of the self and tries to present this as specially and as individually as it can. The poet who deals with public themes may himself be affected, even deeply, by contemporary events at some point in his own being, but to see them in their breadth and depth he must rely largely on what he hears from other men and from mass instruments of communication. From the start his impulse to write about them is different from any impulse to write about his own affairs. It may be just as strong and just as compelling, but it is not of the same kind. He has to give his own version of something which millions of others may share with him, and however individual he may wish to be, he cannot avoid relying to a large extent on much that he knows only from second hand.
Fundamentally this may not matter, for after all what else did Shakespeare do: but the political poet does not construct an imaginary past, he attempts to grasp and interpret a vast present. Between him and his subject there is a gap which he can never completely cross, and all his attempts to make events part of himself must be to some extent hampered by recalcitrant elements in them, which he does not understand or cannot assimilate or find irrelevant to his creative task. in such poetry selection which is indispensable to all art, has to be made from an unusually large field of possibilities and guided by an exacting sense of what really matters and what does not. On one side he may try to include too much and lose himself in issues where be is not imaginatively at home, on the other side he may see some huge event merely from a private angle which teed not mean much to others. Political poetry oscillates between these extremes, and its history in our time has been largely attempts to make the best of one or the other of them or to see what compromises can be made between them.

My Precis:
"The true spirit of poetry is that it deals with vast incidents and does not consist on personal experience. It is opposite of traditional poetry which is based on personal experiences. It is difficult for poet to write on some topics from other people's perspective. He has to write in his own style about those incidents which he has not experienced himself. The political poet does not represent past but shows a vast picture of present. Sometimes he fails to justify the topic due to his ignorance and indifference with the topic. The political poet may include some topics which are not important for the public and sometimes include those which are not important for him. So, political poetry swings between these two extremes and many attempts have been made to create harmony between these two extremes."

Original words:397
Given words: 133

Topics:
i- Nature of poetry
ii- Topics of political poetry
iii- Two extremes of poetry

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Asma Morio

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