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Q 1:- How does the poem 'We Are the Music Makers' assess the famous idea of "art for art's sake"?
Ans:- O'Shaughnessy's famous ode "We are the Music Makers" does not directly reflect the idea of "art for art's sake." The poet here purportedly celebrates art and artistic creations which tend to glorify life by raising it to greater heights.
The poet explicitly makes use of the expressions like "music makers","dreamers of dreams", "movers and shakers of the world" in order to glorify the beauty of art as well as the role of the artist in creating something sublime in the realm of art. in point of fact, the artists, be the musicians, poets or painters, have the potential to move the world with their innovative ideas, thoughts and feelings which they can afford to spread through their creative and artistic works. They believe in the transformative power of art which can make people across the world forge ahead with renewed vigour and redoubtable vitality in terms of intellect and imagination. To put it bluntly, "art for art's sake" is a movement which emphasized only the aesthetic importance of art. It bolsters up the idea that art needs no justification and it doesn't need to serve any social, political and didactic purpose. In the poem, "We are the music makers" the poet has depicted the artists as an integral part of the society, rejecting the seminal theory of aestheticism that art exists only for the sake of art. In fact there are some lines in the poem which define in certain nuances the artists aesthetist aloofness from society. The idea of "art for art's sake" gets intense when the poet strives to convey that the artists go on with their timeless creations even when confronted with conflicting situations. But they never show any sign of wavering. Art goes on in its own way, bringing in its wake a measure of aesthetic pleasure. The artists give vent to their creative impulse when they utter in effusive and evocative terms:
Built Nineveh with our sighing
And Babel itself with our mirth
Of course O'Shaughnessy's poem written in the 19th century favours the idea of "art for art's sake." Nonetheless the fact remains that even though the artists, according to the poet, have a lonely space outside the realm of society, they can preeminently be "movers and shakers of the world."
Q 1:- How does the poem 'We Are the Music Makers' assess the famous idea of "art for art's sake"?
Ans:- O'Shaughnessy's famous ode "We are the Music Makers" does not directly reflect the idea of "art for art's sake." The poet here purportedly celebrates art and artistic creations which tend to glorify life by raising it to greater heights.
The poet explicitly makes use of the expressions like "music makers","dreamers of dreams", "movers and shakers of the world" in order to glorify the beauty of art as well as the role of the artist in creating something sublime in the realm of art. in point of fact, the artists, be the musicians, poets or painters, have the potential to move the world with their innovative ideas, thoughts and feelings which they can afford to spread through their creative and artistic works. They believe in the transformative power of art which can make people across the world forge ahead with renewed vigour and redoubtable vitality in terms of intellect and imagination. To put it bluntly, "art for art's sake" is a movement which emphasized only the aesthetic importance of art. It bolsters up the idea that art needs no justification and it doesn't need to serve any social, political and didactic purpose. In the poem, "We are the music makers" the poet has depicted the artists as an integral part of the society, rejecting the seminal theory of aestheticism that art exists only for the sake of art. In fact there are some lines in the poem which define in certain nuances the artists aesthetist aloofness from society. The idea of "art for art's sake" gets intense when the poet strives to convey that the artists go on with their timeless creations even when confronted with conflicting situations. But they never show any sign of wavering. Art goes on in its own way, bringing in its wake a measure of aesthetic pleasure. The artists give vent to their creative impulse when they utter in effusive and evocative terms:
Built Nineveh with our sighing
And Babel itself with our mirth
Of course O'Shaughnessy's poem written in the 19th century favours the idea of "art for art's sake." Nonetheless the fact remains that even though the artists, according to the poet, have a lonely space outside the realm of society, they can preeminently be "movers and shakers of the world."
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