What according to aronold are fallacious estimate of poet and poetry?why does Arnold term them as fallacious
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The meaning of the word fallacious is an idea or concept i.e based on fake beliefs of misconceptions. So in this poetry, Arnold presents a commentary on different poets. Furthermore, according to Arnold, the greatness of Wordsworth lies in his powerful belief.
Matthew Arnold does not fully explain the term 'high seriousness' that is why its considered to be fallacious.
However, high seriousness refers to how mankind will discover that we have to turn poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain ourselves.
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Arnold talks about poetry as a reflection of life but at the same time, he also says that it will be fallacious if it is not treated as something high and sublime. There is a need for understanding poetry as a criticism of life under some fixed conditions for such a criticism which are governed by poetic truth and poetic beauty.