Question

What do you infer from Darwin's comment on his indifference to literature as he advanced in years?

Answer 1

Darwin confessed that he only gained pleasure from poetry up to the age of thirty. He thoroughly enjoyed the works of many great poets like Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Milton, etc. Pictures and music also gave him great delight. But over the years, his mind became a machine for grinding laws out of facts and therefore couldn’t find the taste for poetry, pictures of music. In fact, he found the works of Shakespeare intolerably dull and reading it nauseated him..

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