Art as Fiction A Study of Poetry as Romantic Fiction

Abstract

This article studies the idea of art being a product of fantasy, or at the most, fiction, which may or may not be rooted in reality. We can look at the artistic paradigm with the analogy of a hand pump, standing on the ground, drawing water from below, and then supplying it over the ground. The writer too is sunk deep into reality and from here he draws water for his own roots. It is not wrong to suggest that a man who stands five feet four inches tall, is actually double his length inside the earth, and a hundred times of it, in the air.