B. Answer the following questions :
- When do we run into difficulties?
- Is ugliness a part of life? If so,how?
- What has John Keats written in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?
- When does "ugliness" occupy a place in our life?
- How do poets and artists provide answer about the questions on how to define beauty?
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Explanation: (a) We can enjoy and appreciate beauty easily. However, we run into difficulties when we are asked to define
beauty.
(b) Yes, ugliness is also a part of lifE- Since it is the absence of beauty, whenever and wherever there is a lack of beauty in life, there lies the ugliness.
(c) John Keats, in his “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, has written that ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’. It signifies that truth, even if it’s not pleasant, becomes beautiful at a higher level.
(d) “Ugliness” occupies a place in our life when there is widespread hunger and injustice in a society.
(e) Poets and artists provide answers about the questions on how to define beauty by incorporating both the ugliness and beauty in their works. They do not ignore the elements that are not beautiful. In other words, they portray the truth.
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