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Q. Attempt a critical appreciation of the
following passage, commenting on its *content* and *style* :
The truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes; and just as close to reality and
truth. Where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone; they are ahead of their time, whereas logicians and scientists are abreast of their time. We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicableness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding
a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination.
The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget of gold; first men dreamed the automobile and afterward, long afterward, the practical-minded engineers caught up with what had been created by
winging fantasy. He who looks deeply and with a seeing eye into the poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic of
today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow. If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of his vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected, he must not for that reason be smiled upon as merely
the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like the engineer, is a specialist. He being, turned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today.
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Q. Attempt a critical appreciation of the
following passage, commenting on its *content* and *style* :
The truth is that poets are just as practical as people who build bridges or look into microscopes; and just as close to reality and
truth. Where they differ from the logician and the scientist is in the temporal sense alone; they are ahead of their time, whereas logicians and scientists are abreast of their time. We must not be so superficial that we fail to discern the practicableness of dreams. Dreams are the sunrise streamers heralding
a new day of scientific progress, another forward surge. Every forward step man takes in any field of life, is first taken along the dreamy paths of imagination.
The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget of gold; first men dreamed the automobile and afterward, long afterward, the practical-minded engineers caught up with what had been created by
winging fantasy. He who looks deeply and with a seeing eye into the poetry of yesterday finds there all the cold scientific magic of
today and much which we shall not enjoy until some tomorrow. If the poet does not dream so clearly that blueprints of his vision can immediately be drawn and the practical conversions immediately effected, he must not for that reason be smiled upon as merely
the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like the engineer, is a specialist. He being, turned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today.