LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its meaning.
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The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s formal structure and its rhetorical aim.
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The objective correlative refers to the correlation between the poem’s theme and its objective historical context.
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The objective correlative refers to a set of objects, situations, or events which necessarily produce a particular emotion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -T.S. Eliot used this phrase to describe “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion” that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader (“Hamlet, ” 1919).
Detailed explanation-2: -It refers to a literary description that depicts an emotion and hopefully evokes that emotion in the reader or viewer. It is employed in a literary work to describe a set of objects, a sequence of events, cluster of images and setting which shall be the formula of that particular emotion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The objective correlative is that formula for creating a specific emotional reaction merely by the presence of certain words, objects, or items juxtaposed with each other. The sum is greater than the parts, so to speak.
Detailed explanation-4: -The idea of the objective correlative which Keats and Sipihri advocated in their poems is firmly grounded in their power of implying worldly ideas to the readers objectively and not through direct expression.