... Fourth, literature, sometimes, may exist in 'boundary' area. Literature is commonly identified with imagery. Imagery is used both in prose and poems. As much as possible, the authors indicate the visualization by imagery. Generally, imagery describes what the author wants to visualize. Most of visualizations ... and he imitates actions" (Poetics, IX, p82). Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). Where Socrates puts it to Glaucon that an imitator is " .....

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... story it is easy to see which one is the better interpretation. This quote is Perrine disagreeing with the idea of having multiple interpretations of poems because it exaggerates the uniqueness and unlikeliness of one of the interpretations. When the I focused on the word poetry I could still piece together ... his poem is about. This is the same argument Barthes is saying, they both believe that even if the slightest hint given about a poems meaning it closes the door for potential interpretations both authors believe they should be excluded from the interpretation of their work, and t...

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... . Is it readability or visual? Really it depends on the person. The definition of literature, in the broadest sense, is everything that has ever been written. Anything from the earliest poems of Homer, to today's web pages, can be considered literature. But for a specific sense, there are various kinds of literature. A for of literature, fiction, is writing that an author creates ... and glamour of it all is entertaining, beautiful, magnificent, and the like, but all in all the play itself needs the extra. Just about anyone can publish a book or a few poems but a play? Not unless you hav...

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... . As the language describes the awkward nature of Hamlet's powerlessness, it becomes quite uncoordinated, with the use of alliteration to again emphasise the point; "Muddy-mettled" and "damned defeat." Momentary rhyme within the soliloquy removes the audience from this sense of clumsiness, and gives back its strength and force. However, it is Hamlets description of the situation in which he now ... ...

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... with romanticism which emphasizes the individual. He says that no text can have an independent meaning. All texts depend on other texts for its meaning. So literary tradition, such as poems, belong to other texts. Then we have so called archetype. It means that any new text is new realization of the previous traditional texts. For Eliot the great poem is ... ...

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... to detach the text from context. We should put our prior knowledge aside and the focus should be on close analysis of text. This movement belongs to an American critic John Crow Ransom, he introduce new criticism in 1941. He focused on the unity of text. Another new critic is W.K.Wimsat gave two ideas: - Intentional fallacy - Affective fallacy New criticism discarded ... ...

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