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Thinking Activity on Matthew Arnold - The Study of Poetry

Here is my answer of thinking activity which is given by our professor Here is the link of given task.... Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic of Victorian era who worked as an inspector of schools. Arnold is acknowledged as being one of the first poets to display a truly modern perspective in his work.Perhaps his most famous piece in literary criticism is his essay "The Study of Poetry". In the Victorian period in between the two two esteem of Art for Art's sake and Art for Life's sake Arnold presented the Golden mean. Write about one idea of Matthew Arnold which you found interesting and relevant in our times. Mathew Arnold in his definition of poetry said that, Poetry is a criticism of life.It also seems very relevant in present time also. It must concern itself with life and its problems. Whatever poet or writer write that is not only considered as a  creative work but it is also a criticism of surrounding n...