Poetry analysis

As a poem interpretation in a broader sense can be any systematic, understanding -oriented concern with poetic texts describe. An important collection of poetry interpretations of German-speaking authors of the Frankfurt anthology.

Target and starting points

The aim of the poem interpretation, it is usually to develop the aesthetic and cognitive content of a poem or lyric text / text fragment from its formal and stylistic properties, drawing on background knowledge about the author, the intended audience and the historical embedding. The procedure for poem interpretation, there is not; one is now rather agree that different interpretative approaches are legitimate and are on equal footing.

Approaches to interpretation (examples)

For example, there are

• Production-oriented approaches to interpretation: they lead back to text features biographical and individual psychological aspects of the author or to the historical and political factors, that is, to the circumstances of text production.
• Immanent interpretation approaches: they look at the work of art as autonomous and removed from its production circumstances. Central here is the aesthetic effect of the text, the ( abstract and idealized understood) affects reader. Background knowledge about the author or the circumstances of the time of the work plays best as a corrective to a role; However, it is not considered to be constitutive for successful interpretation.
• Effects-based approaches: they either make the reception historical experience of the work to the starting point of interpretation or bring the variety of possible interpretations aesthetic reception at the center.
• Inductive approach goes from the smallest observations and extended gradually to the whole
• Deductive approach: one might find on allegation, conjecture and theories to the overall poem and assigned, or rejected it by way of examples