PRACTICAL CRITICISM for students [Autosaved].pptx

Practical Criticism

1. PRACTICAL CRITICISM Dr. Sarangpai Ramchandra Shinde. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Amdar Shashikant Shinde Mahavidyalaya , Medha .

2. What is practical criticism? Introduced by I A Richards in England in the 18 th century Criticism based on close textual analysis Poetry analysis, close reading of the text

3. Tips to understand and appreciate a poem Quick first reading Try to understand what the poem is about Don’t try to make the poem unnecessarily complicated by involving your own/subjective imaginations and emotions Divide the poem into stanzas and try to understand every line and stanza objectively If you feel that the given poem is very difficult to understand, there are other things you can try without going deep into the meaning and understanding of the poem.

4. What if you don’t understand the poem at all? Count lines and stanza Comment on the stanza pattern, rhyme scheme Figures of speech can also be hunt down just by having a glimpse of the poem. eg. Similie , repetation , alliteration, onomatopoea , hyperbole etc

5. Diving deep into the poem A branch of literature which is suggestive, imaginative and emotive A poem is like an iceberg It always carries message or intends to share his/her feelings to the reader A Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings Revolves around one particular theme: love, nature, death, etc. Language is not explicit; to say something and to mean something There is no final meaning as such of a poem. The meaning keeps on changing with different readers.

6. TYPES OF POEM Narrative: a poem that tells a story; eg. The epic, ballad, etc. Non Narrative: This kind of poetry reveals the speaker’s emotion, feeling, thought, mode, attitude, belief, observation, experience, state of mind etc. Poets of non-narrative poetry directly address the readers In this genre of poetry, poems are totally focused on the inner thought, ideas, feeling, perception and emotion of the speaker or poet. Some of the popular forms of non-narrative poetry are Lyric, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy etc.

7. Theme/ Central Idea of the poem The central theme of a poem represents its controlling idea. This idea is crafted and developed throughout the poem and can be identified by assessing the poem’s rhythm, setting, tone, mood, diction and, occasionally, title . The theme is rarely stated explicitly, and it is not a moral but an important idea that is prevalent throughout the poem.

8. FORM A poetic form just refers to a type of poem that follows a particular set of rules, whether it be the number of  lines , the length or number of  stanzas ,  rhyme scheme , subject matter, or really whatever rule you can think of. The most famous poetic form of all  has  to be the  sonnet s and lyrics . 

9. Figures of speech

10. IMAGERY Imagery means  to use figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. ...

11. RHYME correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.