Different Approaches to Romantic Poetry Essay

1- IntroductionFor passion or profession, for hobby or obligation, for love or duty, for this reason or an opposite, champion takes his pen and devotes few minutes he steals from era to trace expressive words on paper. I am among m whatever, in ruptures ab pop publications and this study day comes as a golden opport sensation to show how much my fancy is caught and how outlying(prenominal) my love is increased when the heart excitingly beats and the feeling progressively grow, to ask the self to enjoy a travel by instrument of distinct words along the path of different ideas for the pastime of a visit to some parts of poetical world.Two enquiries draw our concern which approach to adopt to clear up an idea in disposition about this or that line from a verse mostly sounding melodious nevertheless its grasping is a difficult experience that represents a real ch tout ensembleenge for most of us?, the second is that denunciation with all its schools and theories is a helpful tool to manage in a instruction or another interpretation and therefore appreciation of the piece of verse save does it with all its complexities dull the meaning, and obstruct any attempt to demoralise it.If so, it gives a tedious attempt to elucidate clumsy verses and anything that is unclear is involuntarily unlovable and of course unrewarding. 2- Poetry and lit critIt is almost admitted that the poem is an uplifted thought expressed in a beautiful way to sex the emotion and mind of the lecturer, listener or the poet himself.However it is not unremarkably easy to define a poem if you link any lore of it to Criticism Traditionalists for example do not recognize the talent of any poet unless he can have the capacity to visualize any peculiarity as universal, any specific to more general and any flying to eternal besides he has to have the art to transmit the pass of his poem intelligibly to others arousing by that their emotions and stirring up their minds.Joseph Con rad once tell that his task through the power of the written word is to fetch you hear, to make you feel, it is above all to make you see (Christopher Gillie 38) William Wordsworth from his part insists inpreface of lyrical Ballads on poets to visualize life more than critics because it is the noble characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every(prenominal) subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of his fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Poets themselves.On the other hand, Mathews Arnold disagrees with Wordsworth in the Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1865) when he says almost the last thing for which one would come to English literature is just that very thing which now Europe most desires blame The approach in this school focuses mostly on traditional elements such(prenominal) as diction, sound, imaginativeness, rhetoric, rhythm, genre, stanza, and sentence structure all form organic unity for ,aesthetic purposes and an independent entity sharing relationship with real life and poems may have the appearance _or_ semblance transcendental going beyond any expectations.Furthermore this approach insists that meter is an aesthetic representation of life match to brotherly needs because it is not a private pleasure since it induces in us a solvent up to the circumstances of the world Modernists rather exclude poetry from creation a representation of reality and that is out of social purpose and then detached from historical context because poems are only fiction and fantastic to what is exact and sensible.Henceforward, modernism did not develop traditional poetry but was instead characterized by a deviation from the norms, a rejection of the past, an anti world using myth, a rejection of conventional plot and a condense to laissez faire and intellectualism, and so writing poetry is cerebral than emotional and it is a fiddle that is open ended and searches to pose qu estions rather than answering them. All of E.Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberly and T.S.Eliot the neutralize Land, and W.StevensThirteen Ways of Looking at a Black hiss are good examples of these characteristics. Post modernists from their part gives great importance to the lector response and only for him can the final say of interpretation be referred, Walter Slatoff in his book with respect to readers thinks that no one can span the effective existence of reader and practice even those who insist on the autonomy of the literary work. (R.Wellek/A.Warren145).Some views insist on good reading as a quality that has nothing necessarily to do with something one writes or says or anything else one does apart from reading (G.Strickland6) Post modernists in addition claim that poems are complex but they create a principle out of that chaos, that they are trivial anddisheartening but clever pieces and original.Schools of CriticismThey are cited as follows Traditional it gives information ab out the writer and his time in order to broaden understanding and meaning. New Criticism it highlights the lyric, it detaches the poem from biography or history and directly moves to analysis of diction, imagery, meaning of unfamiliar with(predicate) words Rhetorical it focuses the art of persuasion through different arguments, rightfulness evidence.In order to understand the content with great appeal to the reader Stylistic great importance is given to the peculiarities of diction and imagery nonliteral a deeper interest to metaphor as part of meaning Structuralist uncloudedness is drawn from sociology and anthropology that represent important factors in a given fraternity Post structuralist evading organic unity and interdependence Myth theory it derives from Northrop Frye placing the poem to categories and sub categories up to the heros myth, fall, and enemies Freudian a intimate imagery is concerned, struggle for the superego.Oedipus complex Jungian recurring poeti c images, symbols and imagery as interestd to patterns from life Historical historical context and selective information are concerned Biographical the writers psychology and biographical data are concerned Sociological include society and social factors in a poem Political the different political movements the poet supports Marxist a political correctness .i.e. to assess the poem according to the support for workers against capitalists exploitation Moralist to assess the poem according to religious convictions, tolerance and social justice Cognitive scientific relate poems to brain functioning, but its an approach that is still in its infancy.4- virtual(a) Analysis to Shelleys Ode to the West Wind and Keatss Ode to a nightingale in fact in spite of all the complexities of criticism it opens doors to leery different levels of meaning and significance and if we arte drifted towards confusion out of the many schools of criticism we are as well lucky to have them but woof of which approach to adopt should be made precise and practical and out of my experience in teaching poetry and sometimes writing it.I infer that being eclectic is is the best approach that may attend in agood way analysis of poems by incorporating several(prenominal) approaches in one article to better approach the poem for the sake of evidence, that can never be easy without truth evidence genic in a beautiful performanceBibliograghy1- Matthew Arnold. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, Essays in Criticism. London and Cambridge Macmillan and Co., 1865. Pp. 1-41. 2- C.Gillie. Movements in English Literature 1900-1940, gravid Britain CUP, 1978 3- G.Strickland, Structuralism or criticism, New York CUP 1985 4- R.Wellek/A.Warren, Theory of Literature, Great Britain, 1978. 5- William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London Printed for J. and A. Arch, 1798. Web Library.WWW.poets.orgEn.wikipedia.org