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LITERARY CRITICISM

LITERARY CRITICISM. Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Bioagraphia Literaria, Defence of Poetry. Wordsworth’s view of poetry. Wordsworth deals with situations and incidents from common life He describes ordinary things as if they were unusual

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LITERARY CRITICISM

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  1. LITERARY CRITICISM Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Bioagraphia Literaria, Defence of Poetry

  2. Wordsworth’s view of poetry • Wordsworth deals with situations and incidents from common life • He describes ordinary things as if they were unusual • Coleridge makes supernatural events real with the use of imagination • This happens through the ‘suspension of disbelief’.

  3. Poetic form • Poetry is seen as the spontaneous and genuine expression of the poet’s subjective emotion. The Solitary Reaper, Daffodils and She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (by W.Worthword) • The ballad is rediscovered and looked at as the best form poetry to deal with the supernatural and the unknown. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (by S.T.Coleridge)

  4. Purpose of poetry • It expresses the poet’s emotions and it reveals the inner reality of things lying behind their outer appearance. How? Through the power of imagination which colours and interprets events.

  5. The language of poetry • In Wordsworth’s poems the language seems simple because he uses words from rural life, and humble characters. However, his poems have a strong symbolic meaning. • On the contrary Coleridge uses archaic terms and exotic settings and characters to create a supernatural and symbolic atmosphere in his poems.

  6. Themes • Nature because it is helpful to look inside the self. • Memory because it relives the emotions experienced in the past.

  7. A Defence of Poetry, 1821 ‘the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,like an incostant wind,awakes to transitory brightness ;this power arises grom whitin’(Shelley) The poet considers himself an independent creative genius.

  8. Poetic form • The most important form of poetry is the ode • We can quote: • Ode to the West Wind (by P.B.Shelly)

  9. Purpose of poetry • Express the poet’s emotion • ‘Make immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world’. • Record the best and happiest moments of the mind.

  10. The language of poetry • The language is highly figurative and it is caracterized by a strong pathos, invocations and mythological references.

  11. Themes • nature as a symbol of political ideas or philosopical issues.

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