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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... thematic or situational contexts or frames of reference for the reading of a poem . Examples are death in Tennyson's ... thematically significant elements and parts of a poem . Referring to one or more scripts , on the other hand , al ...
... thematic feature in common : the speaker must be clearly self - reflexive or clearly make him- or herself a theme of the poem . This decision does not reflect a subjectiv- ist understanding of the lyric genre : instead , it was ...
... thematic frame of reference , a change of frame from the relationship of friend- ship / patronage to the condition of being a poet , and also a redefinition of the implied script from one of homage to one of self - immortalization ...
... thematic focus of the poem from his role as a friend to his role as a poet who assures himself of his own attainment of immortality . In the closing couplet , in which the poetic sequence is continued and concluded , the speaker then ...
... thematic context governing the communication situation . The speaker goes on to address his interlocutor , initially in an almost aggres- sive manner , with the intention of defending himself against the criticism of his love . As he ...
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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 |