Open AccessDimensional understanding of poetry
Author(s) -
G. Kuschke
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
koers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-8557
pISSN - 0023-270X
DOI - 10.4102/koers.v46i4.1121
Subject(s) - poetry , relevance (law) , dimension (graph theory) , isolation (microbiology) , literature , philosophy , content (measure theory) , art , mathematics , pure mathematics , political science , law , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , mathematical analysis
Integrated literary ana! ysis departsfrom the poetic text. A ndyet this hy no means implies the isolation of the poem, excluding all external references like time and belief. It is only by means o f a structural approach in which form, content and contextual relevance cohere, that the valencial potential of a text is unfolded. In this article one particular poem ‘Der Rngel. Advent’ by Reinhold Schneider has been utilized to show how the analytic consideration of the aspects of time and beliefs, reveals the total richness, the depth and dimension in the poem