Read the excerpt from "poetry." nor is it valid to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. what theme does this excerpt express?

The theme that the excerpt above expresses is that poetry is genuine when it reflects truth and reality.

Poetry, in its existence, enables the passage of stories along generations, so in this essence, poetry is an instrument of history. Poetry has a long history, as it has already existed before prose.

ichabod crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in washington irving's short story, "the legend of sleepy hollow", first published in 1820. in popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as "the headless horseman."

what do you mean.

do we have to write a essay?