Poetry is an escape from personality- Eliot

MEG – 05: Literary Criticism & Theory ASSIGNMENT 2017 - 2018

(Based on Blocks (1 – 8)

Assignment code: BEGA001/TMA/2017-18 Maximum Marks: 100 

1. Would you agree with Eliot that poetry is an escape from personality? Discuss. 

In “Tradition  and the Individual  Talent,” T.S. Eliot describes  the basis for  what poetry is in  a way that seems inappropriate when  applied to most writers.  “Poetry is not a turning  loose of emotion, but  an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.” His theory implies that poets only write to remove themselves from their day to day emotions. Eliot says that emotion has nothing to do with a poet’s work. 

Let us consider for a moment someone who writes a poem about his or her deep love or infatuation for another person.

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