Question

Which lines from "Poetry" best indicate that the poet believes that poetry should express authentic thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
nor till the poets among us can be
“literalists of
the imagination”—above
insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,”
shall we have
it.
When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand
nor is it valid
to discriminate against “business documents and

school-books”; all these phenomena are important.

Answer 1

Answer:

nor till the poets among us can be

“literalists of

the imagination”—above

insolence and triviality and can present

for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,”

shall we have

it.

Explanation:

In "Poetry," the speaker is frustrated by the general culture of poets and poetry. In that matter, he considers that they usually talk about contemptuous and unimportant things. In fact, he believes that what cannot be understood is impossible to admire. Therefore, he expresses that poetry should convey truthful happiness, emotion and thought.

Answer 2

Answer:

“imaginary gardens with real toads in them,”“literalists of

the imagination”, "When they become so derivative as to become  unintelligible", to discriminate against “business documents and  school-books”

Explanation:

This verse is one poetic picture where we can imagine a beautiful garden with flowers and trees and among them toads. There is a metaphoric picture where we can see the opposition between what we imagine when we read the garden and what the writer wrote in this verse. Authentic thought is to put something which people connected with ugly and not to put with something beautiful. The writer shows us how to be innovative and also tell people who criticized his poetry that he is full of imagination and new ideas.

Also one of the ideas in this poem is that poets can be a prisoner of imagination(“literalists of the imagination”)  which means that they can not always write about the imagination, they should include in their poetry reality. They should try to write verses and rewrite verses if is necessary, not just to rhyme verses.

The poetry should express authentic ideas which are explained in verse "When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible". He criticized poets who want to show all the beauty of their poetry and all their skills so their verses are unintelligible.

The poetry can not express feelings when business documents and school books are the subjects. There are important for life, and poetry is here to explains and evokes life.