The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry: Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th CenturyThis study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction. |
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... Lady " ( Peter Hühn ) ......... 157 14 W. B. Yeats : " The Second Coming " ( Peter Hühn ) ................. 177 15 D. H. Lawrence : " Man and Bat " ( Peter Hühn ) .. 187 16 Philip Larkin and Thomas Hood : " I Remember , I Remember ...
... lady in a courtly context where , for social and moral reasons , his desire cannot be fulfilled . This may be due , for example , to the demand for female chastity , the lady's higher social standing , or the fact that she is already ...
... lady he courts . In the third stanza of this poem , however , in which the speaker once more at- tempts to explain the change in his situation , he portrays himself as the person who has been performed a service : ' But since that I so ...
... lady takes place as a reaction to the withdrawal of her love . The choice of animal - related metaphors to describe the behaviour of the women means that their absence can be understood as suggesting the se- quence of returning to the ...
... lady , but is also an attempt to obtain control over her : ' It seems to focus on the depicting and idealizing of the beloved and to offer her patient , unrewarded service , but in fact it provides a discourse of con- trol and ...
Contents
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Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | 57 |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 79 |
Kubla Khan | 95 |
Promises like PieCrust | 139 |
The Voice | 147 |
Portrait of a Lady | 157 |
The Second Coming | 177 |
Man and Bat | 187 |
I Remember I Remember | 201 |
Ode to Suburbia | 213 |
Fiction | 223 |
Ode on Melancholy | 111 |
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church | 125 |
The Results of the Analyses and Their Implications for Narratology and the Theory and Analysis of Poetry | 233 |