CAT 2024 Slot 3 VARC · Question 1
The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that
best captures the essence of the passage.
Lyric poetry is a genre of private
meditation rather than public commitment. The impulse in Marxism toward changing a
society deemed unacceptable in its basic design would seem to place demands on lyric
poetry that such poetry, with its tendency toward the personal, the small scale, and the
idiosyncratic, could never answer. There is within Marxism, however, also a strand of
thought that would locate in lyric poetry alternative modes of perception and
description that call forth a vision of worlds at odds with a repressive reality or that
draw attention to the workings of ideology within the hegemonic culture. The poetic
imagination may indeed deflect larger social concerns, but it may also be implicitly
critical and utopian.
- A.Marxism has internal contradictions due to which one strand of Marxism sees no merit in lyric poetry while another appreciates the alternative modes of perception in poetry.
- B.The focus of lyric poetry is largely personal while that of Marxism is bringing change in society. Unless the difference is resolved, poetry will remain largely utopian.
- C.Marxism makes unreasonable demands on lyric poetry. However, lyric poetry has its own merits that are largely ignored by Marxism due to its personal nature.
- D.The focus of lyric poetry as personal may not seem compatible with Marxism. However, it is possible to envisage lyric poetry as a symbol of resistance against an oppressive culture.
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