ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -When a poem stands in the past tense, the described events and experiences are temporally set back. Especially when a report on experienced events is given, the past tense is most suitable, because the speaker tells the reader about an occurrence or an incident s/he made a longer time ago.

Detailed explanation-2: -The past tense is a grammatical tense that we use to talk about something that happened in the past, or the way something was in the past. It’s one of the three main tenses alongside present and future, and it has four kinds: past simple, past perfect, past continuous and past perfect continuous.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tense is the grammar-ization of time. The basics are often all you need: past, present, future. Poets have used verb tenses to manipulate time in their poems. Tenses ease the reading and gives the reader a feel about when is the poem happened.

Detailed explanation-4: -Present Perfect Tense: This tense is used to describe an action that had begun in the past, continues into the present and has just been completed. The time of occurrence of the action is generally not mentioned. This tense is also used to describe an action happened in the past before another action took place.