LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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“Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements”
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“Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality”
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“Continual transformation of the personality”
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“Continual identification with the past”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition. It is in this depersonalization that art may be said to approach the condition of science.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unlike the Romantics’ idea of original creation and inspiration, Eliot’s concept of tradition foregrounds how important older writers are to contemporary writers: Homer and Dante are Eliot’s contemporaries because they inform his work as much as those alive in the twentieth century do.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tradition, according to Eliot, is that part of living culture inherited from the past and functioning in the formation of the present. Eliot maintains that tradition is bound up with historical sense, which is a perception that the past is not something lost and invalid.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following central idea/s is/are discussed int he essay(2)? The concept of tradition makes it compulsory for writer to be pundit-a voracious reader of all the literature written till date. The idea of tradition is not to have literally ‘read’ each and every thing written till date.