... For logical proof, though not experimental proof, is at least as possible in the interpretation of poetry as it is, say, in a court of law." (1). This quote is saying that there is one meaning of poetry and only one. Perrine uses the court of law as an analogy to his argument, Perrine ... 6). This quote helped me realize that Perrine's argument is applicable to everything because what he is saying in this quote is not only in regards to poetry. Before this quote the section that was talking about metaphors and symbols made it very clear to me that there is a difference between the two, ...

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... more with things in a universal wayto deal with them universally is to say that according to probability or necessity it happens that a certain man does or says certain things, and poetry aims at this" (Poetics, IX, p81). The central pre-occupation of Greek philosophy was the relation between universals and particulars; inPhysics Aristotle says "we must advance from ... , ignorance to knowledge etc.), expressed through his actions. By "dealing with things universally", just as the philosophy of nature deals with collections of objects with the same attributes, poetry becomes "more phil...

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... That grows to seed things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely." Again audiences would find it impossible not to acknowledge the poetry in this description. The symbolism and imagery that Shakespeare uses within Hamlet tends to euphemise and beautify the stark and callous picture he is ... in the play is yet another lyrical example of the nature of characters within Hamlet. To the Lighthouse, along with evoking a great sense of poetry within its readers, forces them to acknowledge the presence, yet furthermore, the importance of symbolism within the novel. Again, the authors use of...

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... four functions of language (sense, feeling, tone, and intention). We have symbolic discourse (scientific/poetic language) and evocative discourse. There is mysterious time of the evocator and the evocated in poetry. What is important in literature is how to evocate feelings. Richards has psychological concern about the text language. He is concerned how the readers are affected psychologically. So his criticism ... object seems sufficient on our feelings, it is not the critics' task to talk about emotion. T. S. Eliot is a member of new criticism. He focuses attention on tradition. In hi...

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... popular ideas of the capitalist culture or a representation of the fear of capitalism and commercialism. Plato has many views of literature on society. Plato believes that literature, specifically drama and poetry, is dangerous to the stability for the ideal republic that he envisions. Plato demands that the arts must be strictly censored due to his belief that art's purpose is to ... . To support my claim, I am using the reference of Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he states, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotions re...

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... experience, or facts about real people or events, but they combine these facts with imagined situations. Literature is a broad term that headers novels, drama, poetry, prose, and even film and television, but they are all very different. Novels tell a story much like any other form of literature but much of ... on its own. But literature really means more than printed words. It is considered a fine art. All other forms of literature, including the historically oral (i.e. poetry, some prose, and drama), follow many of the same conventions of a novel, for example the telling of a story inc...

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... of subjectivity. On the other hand, traditional critics focus on intention of the author. J.A.Richard gave the concept of referential statements and pseudo statements. He said referential statements deal with poetry because they deal with the false statements and deal with emotions of the poet. He introduced the idea of objective correlatively and dissociation of sensibility. In objective correlatively, approach Eliot ... showed, poetry should be impersonal and there should be no expression of biography. In Dissociation of sensibility Eliot presents the gap between intellect and emotion...

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