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Originally Posted by asad hussain  Many thanks for your help, Bob. But I am of two minds whether I should say "as" or "to be". What I got from your response is both are OK. Righ  Use 'as'. His poetry is [delete: too much] inspired by the beauty of nature. Like this? Do I also need to change the next part to the Simple Present Tense, (i.e. His poems are descriptive and detailed. They use beautiful imagery to evoke emotions, thoughts, and feelings in their readers. [not this sentence I guess.] He wanted the reader to feel what he felt.) |
I thought about the tense. If you use the present simple, you are saying what characterizes his poetry now. If you use the past simple you are talking about the effect his poetry had on the poetical sensibilities of the time - previous poets hadn't used that sort of descriptive and detailed language. Possibly the present is better, unless you say something about the background - for example
His poems were descriptive and detailed, unlike those of earlier eighteenth-century poets.
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