Feelings & Emotions: The Ingredients of Poetry (Daymakers S02Ep7)

T. S. Eliot’s famous essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” gets very cumbersome and confusing in the second half when the poet attempts to distinguish “feelings” from “emotions.” The Daymakers wonder what Eliot might be on about. Are the feelings we experience in poetry the effects of imagery? Perhaps this is what Eliot meant when he spoke of “the objective correlative.” And what of the emotions we experience through poetry? Do these have anything to do with the emotions we experience in the world? Or are these art-produced emotions entirely their own thing? Food for thought. Let us know what you think in the comments below.