Thursday 7 December 2017

Matthew Arnold's View on Poetry

Question : Do you agree with Arnold's view on detachment, disinterestedness, fallacies lie historical and personal, Touchstone method and his definition  on poetry ? If you agree, why and on what grounds do you agree ? If you disagree, why and what are the point of disagreement?



         Matthew Arnold's vies that 'Disinterestedness on the part of the critic implies freedom from an prejudices. personal or Historical', it means poet should keep away he/she feeling, emotions, sympathy in your mind wee can not judge it detach- ly, partly like Historically and personally. whereas Plato and Aristotle have saw the work in historically and gives the rules and regulation. they say that he should follow all the regulation which are given by them for example 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare, lot of critics have given them opinion on it. but according to Romantic Literature, 'Poets are free from to ancients rule and regulation', he/she can write everything which he thinks, feels. thatsway Matthew Arnold came from the age of Victorian Age, and the Victorian Age, there were many changes we can see that the Industrial Revolution, nationalistic, social stress, spiritual conflict in at that time. thus Matthew Arnold has given his statement freely and his statement is true that we can  not detach the work on the views on Historically and also Personally. For example  the Contemporary television Serial "Pehredar Piya" and the Controversial Movie "Padmavati", The director has free to write on his own away ( views on Romantic Literature) but the p However the People want to ban it. (Because they view on Historically) If the people have saw it view on Arnold's statement that it is not the Controversial things. Thus Arnold's Statement is true that Disinterestedness on the part of the critic implies freedom from all prejudices, personal or historical.

"લખે છે બધા આનંદ ઉલ્લાસ માટે,
જોવાય છે એને ઐતિહાસીક રીતે,
વ્યક્તિગત ને ઐતિહાસિક શા માટે જોવાય છે ?,
એ તો છે માત્ર મોઝ મજા માટે..."

   The idea of Matthew Arnold which I find out date and irrelevant in our time that is his general principles was the Touchstone method. Which introduced by providing comparison and analysis as the two primary tools for judging individual poets. It means we can not give our interpretation and judgement to other works, because we can not compare their work with other work for example If we compare two things Suppose  we compare two mobile Redmi and apple I phone, both are same but it's process, it's ram and it's publicity and many other things are different. thus we can not judge both mobile with Touchstone method, because every one have a specialty as well as literature we can not give our interpretation and judgement to compare with other work, because we can no c every one have their own interpretation and views towards their work. so the idea of Touchstone method is irrelevant in our time.

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