) Vincent B. Reich of the United States made a wonderful summary of the "close reading method". He said:
In close reading, the critics of the new criticism generally have to do:
1. Choose short essays, which are often transcendental poems or modern poems.
2. Ways to eliminate "generative" criticism.
3. Exclude the exploration of "Acceptism".
4. Imagine that the text is an independent, non-historical and spatial object.
5. The preset text is complex, comprehensive, effective and unified.
6. Review reading for many times.
7. Imagine that every paragraph is a drama composed of conflicting forces.
8. Continue to pay attention to the text and its multiple relationships in semantics and rhetoric.
9. Persistence is basically the power of metaphor and wonderful literary language.
10. Avoid explanations and generalizations, or make it clear that it is not equal to the meaning of the poem.
1 1. Seek a completely balanced or unified comprehensive structure composed of harmonious texts.
Put inconsistency and conflict in a secondary position.
12. Paradox, ambiguity and irony are regarded as the suppression of inconsistency.
13. Regard meaning as a factor of structure.
14. Pay attention to the understanding and experience of the text when reading.
15. Try to be an ideal reader, create the only real reading, and classify all kinds of reading.
From the above summary, we can roughly sum up the close reading method of the new criticism. First, select short and meaningful texts, such as metaphysical poetry and modernist poetry, and implicit China classical poetry. These ambiguous and ambiguous texts are suitable for the semantic analysis of new criticism. Secondly, excluding the research on text generation and readers' emotional response, we will focus on this article and read it back many times to find out the subtle meanings of words, such as hints, hints and associative meanings in sentences; Carefully distinguish the various rhetorical devices used in the works, such as metaphor and personification. Thirdly, imagine that this article has dramatic conflicts, regard this article as an organic unity full of contradictions and tensions, and analyze the ambiguity, paradox, metaphor, irony, symbol and other elements of language, as well as the complex meaning and interpretation space of poetry formed by these elements; This paper studies how many elements in poetry form a harmonious and unified overall structure of poetry in contradictions and conflicts.