NCERT solutions for Class 11 English (Elective Course) - Woven Words chapter 3 - Patterns of Creativity [Latest edition]

How does Shelley's attitude to science differ from that of Wordsworth and Keats?

'It is not an accident that the most discrimination literary criticism of Shelley's thought and work is by a distinguished scientist, Desmond King-Hele.' How does this statement bring out the meeting point of poetry and science?

What do you infer from Darwin's comment on his indifference to literature as he advanced in years?

How do the patterns of creativity displayed by scientists differ from those displayed by poets?

'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'.

Poetry and science are incompatible.

'On reading Shelley's A Defence of Poetry, the question insistently occurs why there is no similar A Defence of Science written of equal endowment.'

How does the ‘assortment of remarks’ compiled by the author give us an understanding of the ways of science and poetry?

Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?

The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure':  explain.

How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically?
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.

Explain the contradiction in the similies, ‘Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb’.

Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are  the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.