7. Kinesthetic Imagery images of heat and cold
This imagery represents movement such as the movement of muscle or joints. Frost example in frost’s poem “after apple-picking”.
“I felt the leader sway as the boughs bend”. Line 23 In this line, the author uses “sway as the boughs bend”. In this word, exactly, we
understood the meaning.
D. Explication
An explication is a very specific kind of exercise, designed to help the readers understand a text fully; it is a kind of training in literary perception where the readers
are asked to consider a single poem in detail. The idea and practice of explication is
rooted in the verb to explicate, which concerns the process of unfolding and of making clear the meaning of things, so as to make the implicit explicit. The
expression explication is used in both analytic philosophy and literary theory. An explication is a close reading of a single poem or passage of poetry. The
purpose of this exercise originally to talks about the meanings of the poem primarily in terms of how the poem works that is trough diction, stanza and line structure,
meter, rhythm and imagery. In other resource, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Giola explain, “not intent on ripping a poem to pieces, the author of useful explication instead tries
to show how each part contributes to the whole.” a good explication requires some basic familiarity with the language of poetry.
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E. Theme
A poem may be about anything, such topics as love, death, nature and beauty have traditionally been regarded as subjects particularly suitable to poetry; and poets
have made many worthwhile statements and explored many profound ideas through such subjects. But poem may be about ordinary things and then the theme articulated
the idea, general truth, or commentary on life people brought out through a literary work.
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According to Robert DiYanni the theme defined as an idea or intellectually apprehensible meaning inherent and implicit in a work “. In other words, a theme is a
particular meaning that might identify in a poem. There is rarely only one theme, as poems are complex, poems can be interpreted from many different angles as our
powers of perception are equally complex.
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And according to James Pickering that theme may be defined as “the controlling idea or Meaning of a work of art” in
literature, theme is the central idea or statement about life that unifies and contrasts the total work. The theme must be simple, objective, and specific. The theme in
poetry has to relate with the author and hisher imagination concept. Instead of theme
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The American Experience: Poetry, 1968, New York: The Macmillan Company, p.396
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Robert DiYanni, Literature; Approach to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama: McGraw Hill Companies, p.557
is a specific characteristic that is related to poets. It is the basic idea which the poet is trying to convey the imagery.
In a work of literature, Theme can be defined as the idea about the message of life, society, or human nature. Themes often explore timeless and universal ideas and
may be implied rather than stated explicitly. Theme is the dominant idea that a writer is trying to convey to his readers in a work of literature.
The controlling idea of a poem is the idea continuously developed throughout the poem by sets of key words that identify the poets subject and his attitude or feeling
about it. It may also be suggested by the title of a poem or by segment of the poem. It is rarely stated explicitly by the poet, but it can be stated by the reader and it can be
stated in different ways. The controlling idea is an idea, not a moral; it is a major idea, not a minor supporting idea or detail; and it controls or dominates the poem as a
whole.
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The word theme used to name the particular subject matter of the poem in relationship to the readers previous observation of the life about him and within him.
Theme, then, refers to those broad generalizations and high-order abstractions which each person develops in dealing with the common experiences of life. Each of us was
born, and each of us will die. And, then no one of us can report his own birth of his own dearth, everyone had had some personal observation at first of second hand of
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Diana Lyn Lopez, http:litera1no4.tripod.comthemepoetry_frame.html accessed on Friday 26 marches 2010, 20:35
the elemental and universal facts of life, Birth and Death. So, too, every mature person has had some experience of what we shall call of Heart of and Mind, of
Friendship and of Love, of Youth and Of Nature and of Art, of Work and of Play, of War and of Justice, of Doubt and of Terror; and most persons will add that they have
had some experience of Faith and of God and is not complete list of universal experiences, but it will do to suggest the possible range of poetic themes.
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