MEANING OF POETRY ~ Literary Hunt

What do you mean by Poetry?

Aristotle defines Poetry as "a speaking picture with the end to teach and delight." So, it is the earliest and most powerful of the three major forms of literature. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge -it is as immortal as the heart of man. Matthew Arnold says, "the future of poetry is immense, because in poetry.....our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay."

The Greek called the poet Vates which meant a makes or a creator. The Greeks believed that after God, the only creator is the poet since, the creations of the poet are more beautiful, more powerful and more appealing than the objects of the world which he recreates. Wordsworth said in the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes
its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity." Poetry and life are inseparable from each other. Matthew Arnold believed that poetry must bear its responsibility towards life. It must interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. So, the dimensions of poetry are all-embracing that it is well-nigh impossible to confine it within the limits of definitions. Yet, in a broad sense, it is an imaginative and aesthetic re-creation of the world.

OBJECTIVE TYPES OF QUESTIONS

1. " A criticism of life under the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty." This definition of poetry is given by :
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) S.T. Coleridge
(c) H. Martin
(d) William Wordsworth

2. Who among the following was the first to use the term 'Metaphysical' for a king of poetry?
(a) Lamb
(b) Addison
(c) Dryden

(d) Johnson

3.Who was the first Poet Laureate in England ?
(a) Tennyson

(b) Wordsworth
(c) Pope

(d) Ben Jonson

4.Who is the writer of "A thing of beauty is a joy forever ?"
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Gray
(c)Keats
(d) Shelley

5.Which of the following was a left-wing poet ?
(a) Yeats
(b) Eliot
(c)W.H. Auden
(d) None of these

6."Poerty, in a general sense, may be defined to be the expression of imagination : and poetry is connate with the origin of man." Who holds this view ?
(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c)Shelley
(d) Wordsworth

7.Who calls Poetry "A speaking picture with the end to teach and delight" ?
(a) Virgil
(b) Homer
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle

8."A great poem over-flowing with the waters of wisdom and delight-a source of an unforeseen and an unconceived delight." Who says this ?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Wordsworth

9. Who put 'poets, pipers, players and jesters' in one group and called them "Caterpillars of a Common Wealth" ?

(a) Bacon
(b) Sidney
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) Gosson

10. "The greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life-to the question: How to live ?" Whose observation is this ?

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Sidney
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Matthew Arnold

MEANING OF POETRY

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