Concetti Chiave
- The importance of musicality in poetry is highlighted by poets focusing on the sound of words, using allusive language, and incorporating quotations from Greek culture.
- Modern poets distanced themselves from emotions, contrasting with Romantic poets, and focused on realistic depictions of daily life, making their work complex for the uneducated.
- The transition from Victorian to 20th-century literature saw a shift from social novels with defined plots to psychological novels exploring war and societal disillusionment.
- Freud's psychoanalysis emphasized the importance of the unconscious, influencing writers to adopt techniques based on the random association of ideas.
- The unconscious, according to Freud, significantly impacts human behavior, with instincts being regulated by societal influences like the superego, leaving little space for the ego.
The Importance of Musicality in Poetry
As concerning These poets paid attention not only to the meaning of the word, but also to the way this word sounds like, so they paid attention to the music every word may reproduce. For this reason, they used allusive language, with the use of
association of words and ideas. So, they gave a lot of importance to the musical aspect of the words. They also loved making a lot of quotations, taken from greek culture, to offer a variety of universal literature and they used free verses.
Differences Between Romantic and Modern Poets
Differently from the romantic poets (for example Wordsworth said that writing poems means writing about emotions recollected in tranquillity), this kind of poetry is not involved with emotions. When these poets wrote poems, they
run away from emotions. So, they tried to write about their daily life in realistic terms, and their writings were also very difficult to be understood by the uneducated.
The Transition from Victorian Literature to the 20th Century
Both for the novel and for the poetry features are more or less the same at the turning of the century, so they share the same atmosphere and aspects, so many poets (for example the War poets) found themselves completely absolved in their task of destroying and undermining a reality that they saw completely false.
As for the poets, also the writers were attached to traditional culture, to the victorians, but at the same time they wanted to break the link with the past, because they considered this past as completely false.
The victorian novel was a kind of transcription of life in the same way reality was seen. There was a well defined plot, characters, situations. Moreover, the Victorian writer shared the opinions of the reader. While the novels written during the victorian age can be defined social novels, because they described society in the same way they wanted to see it, the 20th century novels can be described as psychological novels, because there was described the atmosphere of the time, the problems of the war, the disillusionment, so the writers of that time tried to express these conditions. Their task was that of denouncing the frustration of that time. Every single writer chooses a language of his own to describe these feelings.
The Influence of Freud's Psychoanalysis
This is also the period of Freud's psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis gives importance to individuals' reaction and sensitivity. The individual reacts and his soul or personality is seen as having a multiplicity of aspects. Individual's soul is made up of different aspects. So, the job of the writer is that of trying to represent, to write about this discontinuity of the human's psychology.
It's time to break down with the traditions, so the writer uses a new technique, based on association of ideas, which follow in random, not in a logical order.
Freud is responsible for an important thing, he revealed the importance of the unconscious, this is the reason why everything is totally different now, because he said that the unconscious is particularly important in human's mind.
Unconscious is a hidden part of people's mind, and most of people's actions are dictated by the unconscious. People's actions are motivated by instincts. However, these instincts are not free, because they are controlled by the superego (school, teachers, society.…. ), so in other words, school, family, society control everything that has something to do with our instincts, but leave very little space to the ego (what appears of us).
Domande da interrogazione
- How do poets incorporate musicality into their poetry?
- What distinguishes Romantic poets from Modern poets in their approach to emotions?
- How did literature transition from the Victorian era to the 20th century?
- What role did Freud's psychoanalysis play in literature?
- How does the unconscious influence human behavior according to Freud?
Poets emphasize the musicality of poetry by focusing on the sound of words, using allusive language, and incorporating word associations and ideas. They often include quotations from Greek culture and employ free verse to enhance the musical aspect.
Unlike Romantic poets who wrote about emotions recollected in tranquility, Modern poets distanced themselves from emotions, focusing instead on realistic depictions of daily life, making their work challenging for the uneducated to understand.
The transition involved a shift from Victorian novels, which mirrored societal views with defined plots and characters, to 20th-century psychological novels that explored war, disillusionment, and the era's atmosphere, aiming to express and denounce contemporary frustrations.
Freud's psychoanalysis highlighted the importance of the unconscious and the multiplicity of the human psyche. Writers began using techniques based on the association of ideas, reflecting the discontinuity of human psychology and breaking away from traditional narrative structures.
Freud posited that the unconscious is a hidden part of the mind that significantly influences actions, driven by instincts. However, these instincts are regulated by the superego, which is shaped by societal influences like school and family, leaving limited space for the ego.
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