elite

1. Irony as a Principle of
Structure
Cleanth Brooks

2. What constitutes meaning?
• Allen Tate
• I.A.Rihards
• Cleanth Brooks
• Empson
• Wimsatt And Beardsley

3. PLANT ANALOGY - ORGANIC QUALITY
OF POETRY

4. pressures of context
• compares poetry to drama
• Beginning, Middle and End.
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5. METAPHOR VS IRONY
• leads us to ideas in an indirect manner
• taking a risk by not saying things directly.

6. King Lear Example
• “Ripeness is all”.
• “Never”
• “This is a fine state of affairs!”

7. “Dover Beach” Example
• Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”
• Gray’s “Elegy”.
• Why should we use Irony?

8. Types of Irony
• tragic irony,
• self-irony,
• playful,
• arch,
• mocking or gentle irony, etc.