Understanding how poetry works is central to all specifications Keats: AQA (B) Literature and Language and literature; Edexcel Literature
Adimas/Fotolia
T. S. Eliot said this about the importance of poetry:
The metaphor here is of the lower reaches of the sea, its dark silent spaces, its shadowy contours and obscure textures formed by shoals of sand and hidden geological formations. The word ‘feelings’ is used as opposed to ‘emotions’, which suggests more spontaneous reactions, because it indicates a more general psychological context to do with intuition and slow-forming apprehensions. There is a continuum, the metaphor implies, between our ‘surface’ emotions and moods and much more deeply embedded psychic aspects.
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