An Essay on Criticism 3

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Speaker
The speaker in the poem " An Essay on Criticism" is Alexander Pope himself. He criticizes some poets who emphasize on sounds only and show his viewpoints of true writing.

Through the speaker, Alexander Pope, in this poem, we think his character and personality as the following. Pope is a critical perfectionist in poetry for he insists that poets should combine sounds with meanings when writing poem. He is firm in his own view as to the extent of writing satire to satirize other poets.

He may be a hot temper poet for he criticizes a lot. However, he is a literate with a sense of humor because he always knows how to criticize indirectly with wittiness. He is brave as well because regardless of whether other poets' anger or hatred toward him, he is bound to say and to show whatever he feels right.

Pope is knowledgeable because he uses things from large-scale filed in the examples he gave in this poem. Readers have to be informed with lots of information then to fully understand Pope's example. Meanwhile, he knows how to appreciate and bound to praise other's strong points if he thinks that good. For example, he praised Dryden in "An Essay in Criticism" for his excellent work "Timotheus."

Listener

The listener of this poet refer to all the people in Pope's period including all the poets and readers. He wrote this poem especially to those poets who emphasized on rhyme and sounds only instead of on sense and content.

Tone

Pope's tone in this poem was both critical and satirical but also along with a sense of humor. Alexander Pope was good at satirizing in a witty way.

Imagery

That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length alone. (Line 357)

This gave readers the visual image that those long but meaningless sentences are like a long wounded snake trying hard dragging its heavy body.

Soft is the stream when Zephyr gently blows, (line366)

By this sound and visual image, readers seem to feel the gentle Zephyr blowing by and hear the soft sound of it.

And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; (line367)

This is a visual image. We could see a smooth stream gently flows.

But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, (line368)

Both sound and visual image. We seem to see a scene of surges lash the sounding shore and hear the violent sound it creates.

The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar (line369)

This sentence contains both sound and visual image, too. Readers hear the hoarse roar of the torrent and see it flows violently.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw (line370)

This is a visual image, which gave a scene that Ajax trying hard throwing the vest weight stone away.

The line too labors, and the words move slowly; (line371)

The words can not really move but through this description, the poet seems to humanize the words. In our opinion, it is a personification.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, (372)

Flies over the unbending corn, and skims along the main. (373)

A visual image of Camilla scours the plain swiftly over the file of unbending corn and the sea was given.

Irony

Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it" whispers through the trees"; If crystal streams" with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened {not in vain} with "sleep";

Pope gave some forms that often appear in other poets' work in his period. He satirizes that their usage is cliche so that as long as one sentence appears, readers would soon know the following one.

Then, at the last end only couplet fraught

With some unmeaning thing they call a thought,

Pope does not consider those meaningless sentences formed only for sound can be count as containing thoughts. Therefore, he says ironically that other poets think of their unmeaning couplet as a thought. (But in Pope's viewpoint, they are not at all. They are dull and long couplet that has rhythm only.)

Symbol

On our presentation, we said that the symbols in this poem are "Muse" and "a wounded snake" but Doris told us that we should go back to check the definition of symbol. We found that the symbol in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is [snake] which is a symbol of evil, then in our opinion that the symbol in "An Essay on Criticism." Is Muse. Muse is the symbol of beautiful melodies. People at that time judged a poem only by it's sounds so the writer use Muse as a symbol to be pleasant to listen to.
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