American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Objective Correlative
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The idea
Eliot's term for the way a poem produces emotion: find a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events that will be the formula of that feeling, so the emotion arrives when the facts are given rather than described.
In practice
The cause, not the feeling.
Where people slip
The term is Eliot's, and it is tested.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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