Question

Who opined that the business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones?

• A. Cleanth Brooks
• B. I.A. Richards
• C. T.S. Eliot
• D. Allan Tate

Answer 1

Answer:

C. T.S. Eliot

• The idea that the business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones, was opined by T.S. Eliot.

• He expressed this idea in his essay "The Function of Criticism" (1923), where he argued that the poet should take the common emotions and experiences of life and craft them into something new through art and expression, rather than searching for entirely new or unique emotions.

• Eliot emphasized the importance of the poet's craft in reshaping the familiar into something profound