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PLATO AND ARISTOTLE

Thursday, July 18, 2019 Aristotle and Plato's thinking activity.. HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE WITH Plato's OBJECTION TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ARTISTIC LIBERTY ENJOYED BY CREATIVE WRITERS? NAME THE TEXT, NOVELS, PLAYS, POEMS, MOVIES, TV SOAPS ETC. WHICH CAN BE RIGHTFULLY OBJECTED TO PLSTO'S OBJECTIONS? ANS : I am gonna say if we talk about the literature of Plato and Aristotles time, Plato was wrong, we know that Plato was totally against poetry, according to him, It was twice removed from reality, it is inspirational and not rational, it was written in the state of franzy, it leads to the arousal of emotions which is inappropriate and harmful, poets are liars. According to Aristotle poetry represents reality in a very useful way from which we can learn.  FOR EXAMPLE, 1) William Shakespeare, in his drama, Hamlet describes how Hamlets indecisiveness leads him to his dawn fall. 2) Rudyard Kipling, in his poem If, is a father's attempt to provide his son ...

THINKING ACTIVITY - 6.

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HELLO READERS,          welcome to my blog, this blog is prepared on the grounds of an assignment task given by Prof. Dilip Barad  Sir.  PARADISE LOST  is an  Epic Poem   written by the 17th century English poet  JOHN MILTON  . it is an epic poem written in BLANK VERSE  ( Blank    Verse is a poem without rhyme , especially that which uses Iambic Pentameters .) The poem concerns the Biblical story of fall of man ,the temptation of Adam and Eve by the Fallen Angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden .Satan , Adam ,Eve and God are the major charecters.     1). WHAT IS YOUR  UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN PERSPECTIVE  AND DIVINE PERSPECTIVE ? GIVE ILLUSTARTIONS TO SUPPORT YOUR UNDERSTANDING. ANS.     DIVINE PERSPECTIVE  HUMAN PERSPECTIVE  Blind faith in God  HUMAN at the center  No space for Reason and Thoughts  ...

THINKING ACTIVITY -5

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This blog is prepared on the grounds  of an assignment task given by Prof. Dilip Barad Sir  . 1] WRITE A BRIEF NOTE ON THE VIEWS OF WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE ON POEM. ANS:                                                                                         BIOGRAPHIA  LITERARAIA  OR  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES  OF  MY  LITERARAY LIFE  AND   OPINIONS    is an autobiography in discourse by SAMUAL  TAYLOR  COLERIDGE  , published in 1817 in two volumes of twenty three chapters. The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volumes of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry . The work grew to a literary autobiography includi...

SUNDAY READING - AUGUST PATRIOTISM AND RELIGIOUSE FERVOUR

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Hello Readers,   This blog is part of my thinking activity  CLICK HERE . K. R. S. IYENAHAR write in Indian English writing "Freedom had come indeed, but it was not exactly the freedom that our writers of yesterday had dreamed or sung about or the freedom that generations of patriots had visualized and striven for. It was a flawed freedom born in the hour of communal disturbances of unprecedented ferocity and unbelievable bestiality. Tens of millions crossed the border, homes were shattered, lives were wrecked and human values were crushed under foot".                               W. H. Auden has also written a very harsh poem on Partition wherein he lashed verbal - whip on the British officer. Who did Auden find responsible for the partition and massacre of millions of Indians (Hindu, Sikh and Muslims). First a brief introduction of W. H. Auden. 🔵 W. H. AUDEN 🔵       ...