The general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion.
Symbolism may be defined as an attempt by carefully studied means-a complicated association of ideas represented by a metaph...
The general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion.
Symbolism may be defined as an attempt by carefully studied means-a complicated association of ideas represented by a metaphors to communicate unique personal feelings.
Yet the doctrine of the objective correlative is a kind of summation of what Eliot, along with Hulme and Pound, derived from the theory an practice of the french Symbolists. The symbolists had argued the poetry cannot express emotion directly; emotions can only be evoked. And their studies had canvassed the various means by which this can be done. Baudelaire maintained that every color, sound, odor, conceptualized emotion, and every visual image has its correspondence in each of the other fields, Mallarme, insisting that poetry was made, not of ideas, but of words, devoted himself to exploring the potentialities of words conceived as gesture or as modes of emotive suggestion, and treated the interplay of words as a kind of ballet or a kind of musical organization.