Please answer the following question with complete essay res…
Please answer the following question with complete essay response (SIX complete paragraphs minimum). [Total: 50 points] **You are allowed to use your book and notes for this questions** In our course so far we discussed New Criticism as a Twentieth Century theory that emphasized a “close reading” of “the work itself” by rejecting biographical and sociological matters that surrounded the work during the author’s initial creation of the piece. Instead, the focus of New Criticism was to determine “how a piece works” by examining the relationships between a text’s ideas and its form, between what a text says and the way it says it. For your essay select one the following plays we’ve read for class this far, The Taming of the Shrew, The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, or King Lear and using the theoretical lens of New Criticism explore the meaning of the play within the text itself. Look for patterns of sound, imagery, narrative structure, point of view, and other techniques that are discernible through a close reading of the text, to determine the function and appropriateness of these within the self-contained work you select. For your analysis consider some of the following questions: How does the work use imagery to develop its own symbols? How are the various parts of the work interconnected? How do paradox, irony, ambiguity, and tension work in the text? Is there a central or focal passage that can be said to sum up the entirety of the work? How do the rhythms and/or rhyme schemes of a poem contribute to the meaning or effect of the piece? Feel free to cite scholarly articles from class to support your analysis.
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