Minerva Salguero Gómez
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Art History, Graduate Student
A method from Matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry” (1880) “The best poetry is what we want?” we can perceive any poem as great poetry due to three estimations, where the first and second are fallacious, and only the last responds to... more
A method from Matthew Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry” (1880)
“The best poetry is what we want?” we can perceive any poem as great poetry due to three estimations, where the first and second are fallacious, and only the last responds to true quality:
● Historically: it makes us think it is great because it is ancient or a past reference.
● Personal: it makes us think it is important to everyone else because it is important to us.
● Real estimate: it is a balance of FORM & CONTENT (Aristotle’s Poetics)
“The best poetry is what we want?” we can perceive any poem as great poetry due to three estimations, where the first and second are fallacious, and only the last responds to true quality:
● Historically: it makes us think it is great because it is ancient or a past reference.
● Personal: it makes us think it is important to everyone else because it is important to us.
● Real estimate: it is a balance of FORM & CONTENT (Aristotle’s Poetics)
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No Second Troy is a poem by William B. Yeats between 1908 and 1910. Accordingly, to our sources, it was inspired by the unresponsive love of Maud Gonne, an activist for Ireland's independence.
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Keats wrote this poem at the end of September 1819. It belongs to a group of poems known as the Odes. In this case, as the title describes, the subject matter is a poem dedicated to autumn. The speaker highlights the particularities of... more
Keats wrote this poem at the end of September 1819. It belongs to a group of poems known as the Odes. In this case, as the title describes, the subject matter is a poem dedicated to autumn. The speaker highlights the particularities of this season, which can be appreciated as beautiful and meaningful to understand existence, a cyclical creation, and the beauty in modesty. This paper deals with the effects the form and vocabulary have on the subject and how it is described and “personified.”
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John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in 1819, and it is an example of a Romantic Ode. This ode is the second of five odes: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, and Ode on Indolence.