Expressive Theory

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•Literature of Expressive theory:

• Expressive theory defines poetry as an expression, or overflow, or utterance, or feeling or as the products of poet's feeling.• Poetry is the expression or uttering forth of feeling.

•Who said it?

•Abrams 1979•Mill’s theory

•Steps to understand the literature:

•Read the poem or prose, or story. • Find the meaning of the difficult words. • Paraphrase them per stanza.

•Mill’s Theory:

• The poetic kinds. Poetry must be pure to express the feeling. The lyric should be more eminent and peculiar.• Spontaneity as criterion. So, the poetry must be

spontaneous overflow of feeling. • The poetry should be as the state of mind, not in

the object itself. For example, when a poet wants to tell about lion, he should state the excitement of the spectator or based to the human emotion/feeling of the object, not the physical of the lion itself.

•Famous work related to expressive:

• Lyrical Ballads (1798) • Poems in Two Volumes(1807)• The Excursion (1814)• The Prelude (1850)

•By William Wordswroth

The Prelude