For centuries, poetry was a genre of literature for a small audience. It is common to see people reading through stories and fairy tales but not always poems. It is like a bullet which, though small in size, is powerful indeed. Of all the kinds of literature it is the most subjective; Perhaps, this is one of the various reasons why students and many readers lose interest in reading.
The lack of interest could be traced to his qualities in what Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature says, that is:
Writing, which creates a forced, imaginative understanding of experience in language chosen and composed to create a specific emotional response through its sense, sound, and rhythm (893).
From the above definition it is now clear that the poem said a lot a little. his use of “imaginative touch” and carefully chosen language in creating “a specific emotional response, while at the same time arranging “sounds and rhythms”. Another place of the main definition is the poet’s “experience in the chosen language. This simply proves that there is no specific language for poetry, as some have argued, but the poet is equally proficient and perhaps, in the Latin language. , which can range from English, Latin, French, a few.
The term poetry, according to the Encyclopedia, is derived from the Greek poetes, maker, composer. He sees the poet as “one (as a writer) having great imaginative and expressive powers and a special means of feeling” (892).
The term satire, according to Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature and The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical The world edited by John Roberts agree that it is derived from the Latin word “Satura” that is “a dish of mixed mixtures.” According to John Roberts, “Satire soon acquired its own character as a witty or malicious exposition of hypocrisy.” and yet the pretense continued to be a watch for unequal subjects, written in an unequal style and overlapping with other genres” (678) He sees the author (the satirist) as the role of “a cynical mocking civil guard”. a mocking or indignant observer and social outcast” (678). Michael Meyer in The Bedford League Introduction to Literature opines: “Satire casts a critical eye on vices and follies, and tends to make fun of them. to point out the absurdity so that it can be avoided or corrected” (1033). He states that the object of satire is “people, institutions, ideas, things” (616-617).
But Robert Granner .C. and Malcolm Severus .E. in McDougal, Littella Literature he opines that “satire is a literary technique in poetic use. and he composes a critical prose speech with wit and humor to cultivate society” (960). Criticism” Study of Soyinka’s Beatification Area of the Child and Death and the Knights of the King, Nweze Chukwujama Mathews states that “Whenever Satire is mentioned, the minds of the lay people think that they are rude, or just make fun of others” (1) ignorant of the right path , X.J.
In a satirical poem, the poet ridicules someone or persons or persons (or perhaps some human behavior), examining the victim in the light of certain principles and as if the reader should despise the victim (450-1. ).
In the same sentence, Michael Meyer emphasizes that “satire evokes feelings of hilarity, contempt, contempt, indignation towards its vicious subject, in the hope of something better” (1608).
However, The New Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language defines satire along with its others . notable skills and qualities, such as “a literary genre in which something is imposed to make fun of, emphasizing its most frightening features, irony is often used, thus assuming or affirming the standard by which alterations are judged” (888). From his perspectives, the Encyclopedia of Satire defined:
Usually in literary composition the extended theme of human or individual vices, stupidity, abuse, or failure is to be brought about through mockery, mockery, burlesque, irony, or other methods, sometimes to bring about improvement (995).
But wandering a little, Anderson, Robert et al, in Elements of Literature: The Sixth Course sees satire as exasperating when they write: “Any piece of writing designed to make readers feel critical – of themselves, of their people, of their society” (516). there are some satires to make us indignant and to annoy us about the vices and crimes of men.
The word “Satirist” is derived from the literary genre of satire which The New Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language defines as “the satirist” (888). Robert Anderson et al further asserts that satirists and their works clearly fall between satirists and other writers or artists. they wrote;
Satirists are dissatisfied with things as they are, and want to make them better. Satirists differ from others who want to do good, such as moralists, preachers, missionaries, crusaders, and the like, because they emphasize what is wrong in the world and the inhabitants of the world. They don’t say “Be good!” “Obey the golden rule!” “Put others before yourself.” Rather, they mock vicious, ambitious, high-minded people in the hope that those who read them will see us in such and mend our ways (516).
From the style and nature of the Satires, the satirists are misunderstood, especially by those who cannot think, and who are otherwise, inert in mind, we read further in the book. For example, Velox as a satirist “earned a reputation for being scandalous, irresponsible, even irreligious, and yet he affirmed that he had never written anything “without a moral opinion” (517). For this reason, Ujowundu Cornel in the book u>Comedia intelligible: Commentaires criticales et Commentaires criticales they think:
The satirist seems to be destructive. He destroys what seems to be good harmony…. The satirist refuses, and cannot bear the follies or evils that are carried on before him, and therefore he is encouraged to explain what he sees. He uses literary devices, which act as weapons to arm the weird. Such weapons are parody, namely, irony, exaggeration, and irony (9).
Although the Satyrs are exasperated by the attack, the comic genre is often seen. This simply means that comedy shares certain attributes. Because of this Nweze Chukwujama writes:
Thus both the comic pleasure and the abuse of satires are used as bait, to significantly excite the audience and to be heard, just as comedy (which is in most synonyms…) does (21). .
A satire as old as poetry. Notable examples of satire are in the Greek works of the great Roman poet Aristophanes, Horace and Juvenal. genre known as the formal verse satire, and in so doing elaborated a pervasive, often indirect influence on all subsequent literary satire. According to Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature, the satirist’s reasoning is projected by Horatio of the urban man of the world, about the stupidity that he sees everywhere, but to laugh rather than to move. anger” (1995). Pursuing the origin of the genera or genera of satires, the book thus emphasizes;
Satyric conceives the parts of Luvenal in a different way. This is characterized by the honest man who sees with horror the corruptions of his time, his heart consumed with anger and vanity (995).
. “Studying satire in the traditions of Horace and Juvenal, John Dryden was convinced to subdivide the genre into what he called Comic Satire and Tragic Satire,” the Encyclopedia further emphasizes. To this day, these Dryden subgenres have become the boundaries of Satire, whether in poetic form, drama, novel, or memoir, or whatever.
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