The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers. Now, it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers, but is not discerning to infer, as this person did, that the dreams of poets have no practical value beyond the realm of literary diversion. 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 practicable ness 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. Robert Fulton did not discover his steamboat with full steam up, straining at some Hudson River dock ; first he dreamed the steamboat, he and other dreamers, and then scientific wisdom converted a picture in the mind into a reality of steel and wood. The automobile was not dug out of the ground like a nugget to 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 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 described as merely the mental host for a sort of harmless madness. For the poet, like an engineer, is a specialist. His being, turned to the life of tomorrow, cannot be turned simultaneously to the life of today. To the scientist he says, “Here, I give you a flash of the future”. The wise scientist thanks him, and takes that flash of the future and makes it over into a fiber of today.
The question is
1.on the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes of it using recognisable abbreviations where ever necessary. Use a format you consider suitabe supply a suitable title.
2.write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words
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Alpi Bansal answered this
Who are abreast of their time?
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Summiya answered this
Is a poet a practical man in what way
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Abhinav answered this
1. Are poets dreamers? In what sense?
2. Is a poet a practical man? In what way?
3. Are dreams, according to the author, useful to the world? Why?
4. What was Fulton's achievement?
5. If the poet did not dream, what would happen?
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Harjuss answered this
what do you know about Robert fouiton
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Harjuss answered this
what makes the poet come first before the scientist
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Priya answered this
The other day we heard someone smilingly refer to poets as dreamers now it is accurate to refer to poets as dreamers. note making solutions
