Understanding Poetry: Definitions and Perspectives

To express personality and emotions

To tell what actually happened

To escape from personality

To give general truths (correct)

Poetry tends to give general truths, while history gives particular facts (correct)

Poetry is more scientific, history is more serious

Poetry tells actual events, history tells hypothetical events

Poetry gives particular facts, history gives general truths

Begins in wisdom and ends in delight

Begins in delight and ends in wisdom (correct)

Begins in emotion and ends in escape from personality

Begins in escape from emotion and ends in expression of personality

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<p>Emotional and imaginative content</p> Signup and view all the answers