6. TEXT-DEPENDENT THEORY
FORMALISM STRUCTURALISM
Semiotics
Binary
Opposition
Explication Exegesis
• To unfold and
be aware of
a) Metaphor
b) Diction
c) Allusion
etch. And other lit.
techniques
• Is an
interpretation
that leads out
text(lines/stanza)
meaning.
• Author’s voice
• Is the theory and
description of
sign system.
• A pair related
terms or
concept that are
opposites in
meaning
8. Reader-Response/Reception
theory
• A school of literary theory that focuses on
the reader (or “audience”) and his or her
experience of a literary work, in contrast
to other theories that primarily focus on
the author or the content and form of the
work.
15. AUTHOR-DEPENDENT THEORY (His to-Bio)
William Butler Yeats Maud Gonne
They are both Irish Revolutionaries
Yeats feel in love with Gonne because of her beauty and high status of mind.
Yeats proposed to Gonne 6 times but Gonne rejected him and agreed to marry Johnson Mc Bridge.
Yeats’ heart broke and as a result Yeats began to become Obsessed to Gonne and try to proposed to Iseut , Gonne’s
daughter , But like her mother she rejected Yeats’ offer
Destruction of peace as Gonne taught Irish people to fight in violently and destruction of Yeats’ peace of mind , as
Yeats still wondering why Gonne can’t love him back.
16. 1ST SUB THEME:
Pain caused by repeated
rejection can make one’s
world and heart broken
17. TEXT-DEPENDENT THEORY
Formalism
Exegesis
Use Figure
of speech
(Simile)
12 lines Allusion
Douzzaine
Sonnet
Enjambment
Explication
• In ABAB-
CDCD-EFEF
Rhyme
Scheme
Pattern
• 12 lines
with
“Iambic
Pentameter”
• “simple as
fire”
-simple burn
that can
destroy.
• “Beauty like
a tightened
bow”
-Dangerous
Beauty out of
her age
• No second Troy
The title having
12lines:
• “Troy from the
Iliad and the
Aenid “
• Helen of Troy as
Maud Gonne
• The fight of Irish
independence
compared on
how the Troy
fight.
In 2-3rd lines which
is relatively related
to Shakespeare’s
technique
that”sign that the
narrator talk to
himself”
2nd :or that she
would of late
3rd : Have taught
to ignorant men
most violent ways
• 1st
line
• 2-3rd
lines
• 4-5th
lines
• 6-7th
lines
• 8-10th
lines
• 11th
lines
• 12th
lines
18.
19. 1st line: The speaker itself open the
poem by a rhetoric question of personal
plane about the messed and disaster
brought by a women
2-3rd lines: The speaker ask himself that
why should I blame her for teaching
people the despicable methods to attain
freedom
4-5th lines: The speaker is aggravated by
the fact that instigates the innocent
people to propagate violence against
great/strong people, which for the
speaker is futile attempt.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
20. 6-7th lines: The speaker shows 2 sides to
said woman ; where he forgives and let
go of the fact that she stepped over his
soul , but also shows how he is at a loss
to comprehend her methods to win over
great people , instigating the people into
making questionable decisions.
8-10th lines: The Speaker describe how
beautiful the woman is as “ a tightened
bow” means destructive/dangerous
beauty out of her age.
11th lines: The speaker is simultaneously
thinking about some other reality in
which that woman was not such a
firebrand or heartbreaker , even as he
recognizes that it could never have been
any other way.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
21. 12th lines: There was no “second Troy”
for the woman to destroy, she had to
destroy other things-like the speaker’s
happiness, and the lives of innocent
commoners. The first Troy, of course was
destroyed because of a quarrel over
Helen ,another politically troublesome
beauty from another “age” ancient
Greece.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
27. 1ST Sub-theme: Pain Caused by
repeated rejection can make one’s
world and heart broken.
2nd Sub-theme: Beauty is
Destructive.
3rd Sub-theme : The choice to be
hurt or to move on comes from
oneself.
SUB-THEMES
28. GRAND THEME:
Destruction brought by beauty
may lead to either
discouragement to go on or
appreciation of one’s worth in
order to move forward with life.
