Title: The Thirties: The New Country Poets: W. H. Auden

Subject: “Paysage Moralisé,” “Out on the lawn I lie in bed,” “Musee des Beaux Arts”

Date: 17.02.25

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• Main Ideas
  • New Criticism
• Key words
  • EDEBİYAT KURAM VE ELEŞTİRİSİ II
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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Main lecture notes

New Criticism

• The autonomy of the text
• text exerts its meanings by/through itseld
• Intentional Fallacy: This is a term used in literary criticism to describe the error of judging a work of art based on the author’s intended meaning rather than the actual response to the work
• Affective fallacy: the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader
• Ts elliot

Auden

• He left politics and moved to US
• After war poetry
• Homosexual
• post war depression
• comes from a priviledge people
• attends school etc

Musee des Beaux Arts

• as Museum of fine arts
• sense of oblivion on human beings
• Form
• ekphrasis: in which the poem describes an art work, a work of art.
• Free-verse
• indifference
• Suffering

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• Suffering include ultimate suffering which is death and it happens casually so we become oblivious and indifferent to suffering </aside>

• After the war there was the fear of another war so the war did not complete anything. a political pain

• suffering is a daily thing

• young and old people comparison

• Young people does not care about things but old people waiting for another war or a Savior

• Maybe salvation

• Children skates on a pond dogs be dogs horse scratches its back and there is a martyr on the street

• Juxtaposition of the mundane

• these images shows that how we got indifferent to the suffering and it became a daily, casual thing

• Poet tries to illustrates the mundane sufferings

• Pieter Bruegel’s Fall of Icarus: People does not have time to care about grand Figures.

• Auden steps into the post modern poetry but not a post modernism he is transitional

• Destruction of grand narratives

• Lyotard- master, grand narratives religion science literature martydom history etc all of them considered as master narrative

• Mitolojinin artık bir şey ifade etmediğini gösteriyor

• We see the closure of the grand narrative

• The title describes the place of the art work

• ekpharasis describes the encounter between the speaker and the art work.

Paysage Moralisé

• Carelessness of modernity
• The poem emphasizes the idea that we are fragile in nature
• a Sestina sestina Arnaut Daniel a french medieval poet
• 6 stanzas of six lines
• Tornado envoi of three lines
• emerged as parody of poems written by troubadours express their love to unattainable lady
• endwords or teleutons her line sonundaki kelime
• 1-2-3-4-5-6 sonra yer değiştiriyor 6 1 e gider 5 2, 4 3, 2 ,1 6
• not popular form until late 19th
• mock this phenomena within
• new criticism perspective of unsuccessful poem?
• logic of us and them
• we and they terms throughout the poem
• who is meant by them
• villagers as we, and they refers to those who come from the cities to cultivate who left the country side to go get rich in the city and come back to use the land ( amcıklar yani)
• başkasının acısıyla zengin olup hammadde için geri dönenlerden bahsediyor
• sense of sorrow in human life in the capitalism
• sorrow is inescapable
• continuation of sense of sorrow
• Marxist theories, atrocities caused by Capitalism
• The employment form of the sestina reinforces the poem’s themes of entrapment, repetition and historical inevitability. The rigid structure of the sestina creates a sense of inevitability and cyclical recurrence in this way the choice of the sestina form in the Auden’s poem mirrors the poems meditation on the failure of political and social reforms.
• whatever we do we cannot overcome the struggles that we observe in our lives.
• image of water suggests?
• we can still find hopes in our sufferings
• nature will take its own course
• we can achieve the sense of hope by resisting the capitalist condition
• we build our own cities on our own terms without hurting the nature and resist the capitalists
• islands refers to the escape of the capitalists
• not dreaming of an island
• a search for continuity and order and modernists usually returns back to the mythological
• negativity of contemporary life caused by capitalist attempts
• in a sense the poem partly follows sestina form and partly diverges
• New Critic perspective argues that a poem should have an organic unity, content and form relate to each other </aside>

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