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7 May 2013

Please turn in your Feminist lit crit practice. 7 May 2013. Metaphor Criticism Background. Scholars employing metaphoric criticism analyze a text’s meaning through its metaphors. A metaphor is a comparison of two dissimilar objects or concepts in an effort to relate one to the other.

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7 May 2013

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  1. Please turn in your Feminist lit crit practice 7 May 2013

  2. Metaphor Criticism Background • Scholars employing metaphoric criticism analyze a text’s meaning through its metaphors. • A metaphor is a comparison of two dissimilar objects or concepts in an effort to relate one to the other. • Example: The famous painting was a magnet for anybody in the room. • Well constructed metaphors lend deeper meaning to a text or poem.

  3. Metaphor Criticism • Conducting Metaphoric Criticism • First, the critic reads the entire work with specific attention given to its overall meaning. • Second, the critic isolates the metaphor(s) within the text, determines the two objects being compared, and what the two objects have in common. • Third, the critic sorts the metaphors and looks for patterns of similarity within them. • Last, the critic draws the connections between the individual metaphors to the over-all meaning of the work.

  4. Metaphor Criticism Metaphor Criticism: Pink Floyd, Shine On You Crazy Diamond

  5. Metaphor Criticism • Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.Shine on you crazy diamond.Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.Shine on you crazy diamond.You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,blown on the steel breeze.Come on you target for faraway laughter,come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.Shine on you crazy diamond.Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.Shine on you crazy diamond.Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,rode on the steel breeze.Come on you raver, you seer of visions,come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

  6. Metaphor Criticism • Advantages • Deepens the text’s meaning and illuminates its themes. Allows the reader to have a “running tally of meaning,” which ties the entire work together. • Disadvantages • Requires the reader to “lift out of the text” in order to analyze the work. • Not all authors mean for their metaphors to tie up.

  7. Metaphor Criticism Practice • Read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” • Write a response (about a page and a half) that analyzes the poem through THREE of its metaphors. Cite the location of your chosen metaphors! • Explain what two “things” are being compared in all three metaphors. Be specific! Then write what the metaphor MEANS (your interpretation). • Now, show what the metaphors all mean together as a WHOLE. That is, what is the common theme of the metaphors. • Remember that this isn’t about “right” answers – you’re essentially just trying to figure out how a metaphor critic would understand this poem, or what this story “means” through its metaphors. • Due next time!

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