English 2261 17 Feb. 2013 New Criticism: A Focused Summary New criticism is a type of literary theory that focuses on the close reading of literature and how the literature functions as the object it’s meant to be. No external influences are to be taken into consideration‚ strictly the writing itself. This movement emphasizes the text in literature and explains the writers meaning to the reader. The author’s intention‚ excluding historical and cultural context is taken into consideration for analysis
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Introduction The Hope for the Flowers of Trina Paulus started when Stripe was born. He saw other crawlers who were climbing a tree for them to reach the top. It was climb or be climbed. Stripe chose to climb and not mind other crawlers. He was very persistent to reach the top. He stepped on them and continued this single –minded approach. One day‚ he met a caterpillar named Yellow. They immediately fell in love with each other. Yellow encouraged him to just go down and not continue the climb. He
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Prompt 1 Two criticisms of utilitarianism influence Mill towards rule-utilitarianism. The first criticism involves objectors viewing this philosophy as encouraging society to do what is expedient for the moment (22). The second objection proposes “that there is not time‚ previous to action‚ for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness” (23). Mill argues both of these objections by taking rule-utilitarianism into consideration. Rule- utilitarianism states
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“William Butler Yeats deals with an interesting variety of subjects and his poetry is full of powerful images and impressive descriptions. Discuss.” Submitted by Hollie McLaughlin. I very much enjoy reading the poetry of William Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching‚ restless 25 year old‚ looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In ‘September 1913’ he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism
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1 Introduction “Road rage” is a potentially dangerous phenomenon that‚ given our individual proximity to driving or riding in automobiles‚ has broad ranging personal and societal impacts. As such‚ road rage has recently been the subject of significant public and media attention‚ and sensational stories about “road rage” fill the newspapers (Carter‚ 2007; Eckinger‚ 2007; Fumento‚ 1998; Richmond‚ 2007; Thompson‚ 2007)‚ magazines (Best & Furedi‚ 2001; A. Ferguson‚ 1998; Jenson‚ 2007; Liu‚ 2006)
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poetry in poems such as Child and Mirror. Plath writes about many personal experiences‚ for example in the poem Morning Song she expresses the moments her child was born. Sylvia Plath’s poetry is not always‚ but often very dark and deeply disturbing‚ which keeps me as a reader very intrigued as I want to know why she feels this way. In the poem Morning Song‚ Plath describes the birth of her child with rich images and a lot of personal thoughts. I admire this poem as Plath shows a lighter side to herself
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Literature: A Criticism of Life Literature does not simply add to reality‚ but describes it. Matthew Arnold’s statement about literature being a “criticism of life” is right because literature teaches it talks about problems that the world faces daily‚ good moral lessons through criticism‚ and it shows the author commentary on things. Literature is used to express people’s feelings and thoughts. In some literature‚ it can be used to show what authors critique in this world‚ being either good or
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War II. The vast majority of war stories rely heavily on emotion in order to convey the intended message. To look at a war story with the guidelines of New Criticism calls for the removal of any emotional attachment to the novel and purely focus on the text itself. There is no need to incorporate any background on the author or include personal reactions.
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Most students are imprisoned to the mindset of only memorizing facts‚ theories and principles and only having the purpose of applying them for purely academics‚ to get a high score in an exam and to pass a course. But when the examination is over and a course is already passed‚ they still have the question‚ “what are these for?” So as a consequence‚ those who do not know the true significance and value of what they had memorized‚ tend to dispose of them. This already shows a weakness of liberal education
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“Somewhere in America there’s a child holding a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and there is a child holding a gun. But only one of these things has been banned by their state government‚ and its not the one that can rip through flesh. It’s the one that says “F*** you” in more pages than one” (Somewhere in America 1). This poem perfectly explains the ‚ Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America‚ ad named “Choose One” about the way the government has dealt with children’s safety. These desperate
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