A hint of somewhat unexpresst': Tennyson y la lectura del signo poético (original) (raw)

1996

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to help to clarify the controversy between the two tradition ally dominant critical positions in relation to the discoursive and semantic principles which rule Tennyson's poetry: one which defends that his images are only subject to a literal interpretation via the formula X is Y and according to which words can only be the mimetic transcription of the empirical reality to which they allude; another, initiated by E. D. H. Johnson in 1949 and developed by MacLuhan in 1954, which holds that Tennyson is the clearest predecessor of the Symbolist movement fin de siecle: his images are then only meaningful insofar as they can be decoded into units of symbolic meaning. We have come to the conclusion that the critical discussion is based upon erroneous axes: despite the poet's alleged obsession with scientific clarity and veracity, Tennyson does not write empirical poetry, nor can his poems be seen simply as avant garde samples of the Symbolist creed. ...

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