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As we know,new criticism is the post—world school of critical theory insists onthe intrinsic value of work of art and focusses on the individual work alone asan independent unit of meaning.It is opposed to the critical practice of bringing histori-cal of brographical data to bear on the anterpretation of a work.To the new critocs,poet-.ry was a special kind of discourse,a means of communicating feeling and thought thatwould not be expressed in any other kind of language.It differed qualitatively from thelanguage of science,or philosophy,but it converyed valid meanings.Such critics set outto define and formalize the qualities of poetic thought and languagege,using the techniqueof close reading with special emphasis on the implicative values of works and on the vari-ous function of figurative language—imagery,metaphor and symbol—in the work.
As we know, new criticism is the post-world school of critical theory insists on the intrinsic value of work of art and focusses on the individual work alone as an independent unit of meaning. It is opposed to the critical practice of bringing histori-cal of brographical data to bear on the anterpretation of a work.To the new critocs, poet-.ry was a special kind of discourse, a means of communicating feeling and thought thatwould not be expressed in any other kind of language.It differed qualitatively from the language of science, or philosophy, but it converyed valid meanings. Yet critics set outto define and formalize the qualities of poetic thought and languagege, using the technique of close reading with special emphasis on the implicative values of works and on the vari-ous function of figurative language -imagery, metaphor and symbol-in the work.