According to T.S. Eliot is the difference between emotion and feeling?
According to Eliot, "It is not in his emotions, the emotions provoked by particular events in his life that the poet is in any way remarkable or interesting. His particular emotions may be simple crude, or flat The emotion in his poetry will be a very complex thing, but with the complexity of the emotions of people who have very complex or unusual emotions in life The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones, and in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
According to Eliot, emotion recollected in tranquillity as a definition of poetry, is an exact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity on the other hand, poetry is concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experienced at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. Poetry is a conscious effort, Rather than a spontaneous overflow of emotions. Both errors tend to make him personal. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion, it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
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