Thematic Elements in Poetry
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There are two basic ways to approach a poem, just as there is with any work of art. The work can be taken on its face value, examined textually and/or structurally and expected to stand on its own, or the work can be examined in terms of external matters such as the life of the artist. It is certainly true that the artist draws on his or her own life, which if nothing else is a formative experience that determines how the individual thinks and thus how the individual shapes his or her work. At the same time, it is also true that connections made between the work of art and the life of the artist are not sufficient to determine whether that work is valuable or not. An approach using aspects of the artist's life, such as psychoanalytic criticism, is difficult with a poet like William Shakespeare, for his life is not known in any great detail. Some critics in effect psychoanalyze the poet in terms of imagery in the poetry, as can be seen when Philip Edwards considers thematic elements in sonnets written for the so-called Dark Lady, the presumed recipient of a sequence of poems (Edwards 17-32). Elements of the poem such as diction and imagery are examined for what they say about the man who wrote the poem and for how the poem reflects the inner life of that man The diction and imagery of Sonnet 29--"When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes"--contribute to theme and meaning in a way that evokes at least an idea of the mind of the poet who used them.
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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