Question

What is dissociation of sensibility

Answer 1

Dissociation of sensibility is a literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets”.[1] It refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in seventeenth century poetry.

Answer 2

Dissociation of sensibility is a term first coined by TS Eliot as a literary criticism in his work ' The Metaphysical Poets '.

This term refers to the way in which the intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in seventeenth century poetry.

TS Eliot referred that the mechanism of sensibility was lost by the poets of later times which came after the metaphysical poets. According to him dissociation of sensibility is the natural development of poets after the metaphysical poets.