Read the excerpt from "Poetry."


In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,

the raw material of poetry in

all its rawness and

that which is on the other hand

genuine, you are interested in poetry.


What is the theme of this excerpt?

APoetry should convey truthful content and emotion.
BPoetry should never be edited or revised.
CIf you do not understand poetry, you cannot like it.
DIf you like poetry, you do not truly understand it.

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"Poetry should convey truthful content and emotion." I just took the test :)

The theme of the excerpt is:

Option B

  • Poetry should never be edited or revised.

Poetry and verse, writing that summons a concentrated innovative familiarity with experience or a particular passionate reaction through language picked and sorted out for its significance, sound, and cadence.


Structure the plan of words, lines, stanzas, rhymes, and different highlights. Rhythm  a cadenced change in the emphasis of sounds from words being verbally expressed. Once in a while alluded to the progression of words.


One of the attributes of verse is that it is a remarkable language that consolidates and uses words to pass on importance and convey thoughts, sentiments, sounds, signals, signs, and images.

It is an insight language since it relates the encounters and perceptions of human existence and the universe around us.


The qualities of current verse are subjects of separation and esteeming knowledge over feeling. The pioneer artists, like T. S. Eliot, would in general lean toward mind over feeling and esteemed subjects of distance and disconnection as responses to the sentimentalism of the past time of writing.

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