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EFFECTIVE POETRY ANALYSIS

Effective Poetry Analysis through Mathew Arnold’s Touchstone Method. Poetry is something which sustain, console and interpret life for us. Arnold had given a very high position to poetry that it is a substitute for religion. Arnold says "The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry". At this point, Arnold offers his theory of Touchstone Method. Arnold’s touchstone method is a comparative method of criticism. According to this method, in order to judge a poet's work properly, a critic should compare it to passages taken from works of great masters of poetry, and that these passages should be applied as touchstones to other poetry. Even a single line or selected quotation will serve the purpose. If the other work moves us in the same way as these lines and expressions do, then it is really a great work, otherwise not. Arnold wants us to avoid the false evaluation of the historic estimate and the personal estimate, and to attain to a real est
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