LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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Art serves a particular worldly purpose.
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Art’s supreme function is to entertain the public.
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Artists are dangerous to social order.
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Artists serve to construct the foundations of culture.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He writes: Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void forever craves fresh food.
Detailed explanation-2: -In A Defence of Poetry, [Shelley] attempts to prove that poets are philosophers; that they are the creators and protectors of moral and civil laws; and that if it were not for poets, scientists could not have developed either their theories or their inventions. Poets introduce and maintain morality.
Detailed explanation-3: -Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action, are all the instruments and materials of poetry; they may be called poetry by that figure of speech which considers the effect as a synonym of the cause.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which central idea about poets is expressed in this excerpt? Poets are members of an elite organization designed to help those who have lost all sense of hope. Poets are capable of effectively capturing and preserving moments of beauty and pleasure in life.