Critical strategy of close reading method

Critical strategy of intensive reading: the expression of intensive reading is very common in English learning and also in Chinese. It means to grasp the details when reading an article. Take English as an example. An article should not only read the meaning clearly, but also consult the dictionary carefully to understand all unfamiliar words and sentences.

The close reading method of new criticism is not an impressionistic criticism of egoism, but a "careful interpretation", which is a critical way to analyze and interpret works in detail. In this kind of criticism, the critic seems to be reading every word with a magnifying glass, capturing the hints, hints and associations in literary words.

meaning

The book Seven Ambiguities, published by British literary theorist Yan Busun in 1930, is regarded as a typical text intensive reading, and its basic content is "analysis and intensive reading of poetry". Brooks, an American literary theorist, pointed out that the essence of Yan Bu-sun's criticism is that "criticism should deal with the meaning of poetry in the structure of poetry".

However, in the past, criticism tended to "seek the goodness and truth of poetry with prose, and make poetry become philosophy or science". The metaphor of poetry carries the function of "functionality" rather than "decoration", and the rules and words of poetry have also become the positive force for poetry to show its meaning.