Why is it important for poetry to use language precisely? With what example does Borges demonstrate this aspect of poetic language? ORFinding precise words is important in the art of poetry. How does Borges justify this in his interview? ‘OR To what extent is finding the precise words important in the art of poetry, according to Borges?

Why is it important for poetry to use language precisely? With what ex

1.	Why is it important for poetry to use language precisely? With what example does Borges demonstrate this aspect of poetic language? ORFinding precise words is important in the art of poetry. How does Borges justify this in his interview? ‘OR To what extent is finding the precise words important in the art of poetry, according to Borges?
Answer» Borges feels that poetry needs to use language precisely. He opines that only precise words elicit the emotion. In order to prove his point, he quotes a line from Emily Dickinson, ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’. He argues that though the idea is banal the poet is referring to a place which had been visited by men and women in ‘summer’. These people are now dead and the dust she refers to is the dust of death. Instead of saying ‘This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies’ if the poet had used ‘men and women’, the poem would have failed as poetry. It would have sounded trivial.