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5. Why is it important for poetry to use language precisely? What example does Borges use to demonstrate this aspect of poetic language?​

Answer 1

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Borges feels that poetry needs to use language precisely. He opines that only precise words elicit the emotion. In order to prove his point, he quotes a line from Emily Dickinson, ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’. He argues that though the idea is banal the poet is referring to a place which had been visited by men and women in ‘summer’. These people are now dead and the dust she refers to is the dust of death. Instead of saying ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’ if the poet had used ‘men and women’, the poem would have failed as poetry. It would have sounded trivial.

Answer 2

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5. Why is it important for poetry to use language precisely? What example does Borges use to demonstrate this aspect of poetic language?

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Borges feels that poetry needs to use language precisely. He opines that only precise words elicit the emotion. In order to prove his point, he quotes a line from Emily Dickinson, ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’. He argues that though the idea is banal the poet is referring to a place which had been visited by men and women in ‘summer’. These people are now dead and the dust she refers to is the dust of death. Instead of saying ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’ if the poet had used ‘men and women’, the poem would have failed as poetry. It would have sounded trivial.