Sarah Morin “On My First Son”: Short Writing Assignment 3/11/13 Have you ever been to a funeral‚ or lost somebody close to you‚ or known somebody who lost someone close to them? When someone has died‚ it is common for people to say things like "he or she is in a better place now" or "it was just his or her time." These and similar comments are attempts to explain death or to find some meaning in it. We like to believe that after we die‚ we go to a better place. In the same way‚ we like to believe
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New Criticism [pic]New Criticism is a name applied to a varied and extremely energetic effort among Anglo-American writers to focus critical attention on literature itself. Like Russian Formalism‚ following Boris Eikhenbaum and Victor Shklovskii‚ the New Critics developed speculative positions and techniques of reading that provide a vital complement to the literary and artistic emergence of modernism. Like many other movements in modern criticism‚ New Criticism was in part a reaction against the
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English 441 New Criticism Explained Beginning in the 1920’s and coalescing in the 1940’s‚ an interpretative approach emerged that did not define literature as essentially the self-expressive product of the artist nor as an evaluative reflection or illumination of cultural history. These "New Critics" opposed the traditional critical practice of using historical or biographical data to interpret literature. Rather‚ they focused on the literary work as an autotelic (self-contained) object. The New Critic
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In the poem "On my first son" Ben Jonson uses powerful diction and language to convey his emotions of anger and despair. These emotions which he feels as a Father over the loss of his son makes him question his faith in his maker. In the first stanza Jonson conveys his sense of loss by using its diction and language. The words "farewell" of his "joy" in the first sentence show us the deep emotional pain he fell by losing the "child of [his] right hand". Jonson has described his son with innocent
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NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover
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Jad Farha Critical Analysis: On My First Son By: Ben Jonson The entire poem lampoons the theme of an existing paradox between death and joy. Some perceive this poem as a sign of remorse‚ exhibited by Jonson‚ for murdering a fellow actor motivated by jealousy. This makes some people assume that he shifted from being a defiled priest to a priest seeking redemption. The previous presumptions are slightly foolish since all throughout his poem Jonson undermines his creator’s demeanor by delineating
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The Birth of My Son Derrick Grant English 121 Instructor Nielson September 9‚ 2013 The Birth of My Son Some things in life can be planned‚ but nothing is ever for certain. I found that out a long time ago‚ but what really made me truly believe it was when it happened to me. I was twenty years old when I found out my wife was pregnant. I didn’t really believe it at first; I didn’t expect it to happen to me at the time. Nonetheless‚ it did. I really didn’t know what to do‚ after
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world and the afterlife. The poems "On My First Son" by Ben Jonson and "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne are perfect examples of those two arguing sides. "On My First Son" has a very distinct tone of being sad and morbid about death that is evident throughout the poem. On the other hand "Death Be Not Proud" has an angry and witty tone about death‚ saying that death should not be feared but embraced. The poem "On My First Son" is a elegy about Ben Jonson’s son who died at the age of 7. Ben Jonson
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Grace Lear Ms. Joan Richmond 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
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New criticism approaches - FOUZIA LAKHMOR - G3 - S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚
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