LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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He is suggesting that artists serve to develop culture.
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He is suggesting that all artists are from high social classes.
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He is suggesting that artists are repressed throughout society.
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He is suggesting that the making of laws is itself an art.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In “The Defence of Poetry” 1821, Shelley claimed that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". This has been taken to suggest that simply by virtue of composing verse, poets exert some exemplary moral power-in a vague unthreatening way.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley’s assertion that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” is the clearest illustration of his belief that imaginative practice and political activism were inextricably intertwined.
Detailed explanation-3: -’Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’ is one of the best-known and most frequently quoted lines from the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), but, like John Donne’s ‘no man is an island’, it doesn’t come from a poem but from a work of prose.
Detailed explanation-4: -As for poets, Shelley considered them as “the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration”, because in poetry, there are combinations of a large amount of unapprehended thought. The reason that poetry can bring civilization to the society is poets are able to shift people’s mind into language.
Detailed explanation-5: -According to Shelley poetry’s main focus is to reveal the exquisiteness of the world that is deceptively concealed in our busy world of ambiguity and darkness. Later he stresses the main crux of his essay which is “poetry acts in a diviner manner”.