Brooks in his essay, 'The Language Of Paradox', says that paradox is appropriate and inevitable to poetry. The truth that the poet utters can only be approached in terms of paradox. He continues to give several examples of poetry to state his case.
Brooks mentions the poetty of Wordsworth to emphasise his point. In one of his poems, he mentions that 'he is feeling an immense worship towards God's creativity when he looks at the beauty of nature'. At the same time, he says that, his companion who's a little girl, doesn't understand the concept of worship.
Coleridge in a poem utters:
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small.
John Donne in a poem says:
We can die by it, if not live by love.
These examples prove that paradox has been used by poets across centuries to give their poems an all encompassing universality.
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