Eliot starts off by explaining that "traditional" literacy should be definitely discouraged if it is simply following the ways of generations before us. However, he says that it has a much greater significance that must be worked hard for by really digging in deep to the authors before hand wrote, in a temporal and timeless fashion. He goes on to say that essentially, no author has his complete meaning alone, but when reading him, one must compare and contrast him with dead authors. He says that either you will find a conformed individual, or an individual who conforms, but it is not likely to find one and not the other because authors look at the more important mind of his country than his own personal mind. Eliot also claims that great poetry is made without the direct use of emotions, but composed of feelings because in poetry on is not trying to express a personality, but a particular medium of impressions and experiences to combine in unexpected way.
Eliot connects with William Wordsworth. Eliot says that poetry should not include personality in contrast to William Wordsworth who says that "poetry is emotion recollected in tranquility" The two disagree because Eliot thinks that poetry should be consisted of feelings and experience, while Wordsworth believes that poetry should consist of ones emotions.
Question: Do most people say it is feelings or emotions that make poetry good?
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