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VOL. 2, ISSUE 4 (2017)
Is it possible to interpret a poem objectively?
Authors
Gurdeep Singh
Abstract
The present paper has been written with the focus, whether it is possible to interpret a poem in an objective manner or not. In the views of S P Mohanty arts have ‘objective value’, provided “there is need to explain what is meant by objectivity”. If objectivity can be defined, then possibly, literary work of art can also be interpreted objectively. The postmodernist thinkers, such as Lyotard and Baudrilard, who are influential especially in the fields of literary and cultural studies, endorse that ‘objectivity is never possible’. The positivist view defines objective knowledge as something we achieve when we have freed ourselves from all bias and all interest; in this conception objectivity is seen as absolute neutrality, a complete divestiture of the thinker’s subjectivity and her socially situated values, ideologies, and theoretical presuppositions’. The research paper in hand has tended to explain that objective interpretation of a poem, at some level, appears to be there in the domain of ‘objectivity’. For this the views of S P Mohanty from his essay, Can our Values be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics have been emphasized and quoted. For the sake, the author has given an interpretation of the poem, The Road not Taken by Robert Frost.
Pages:252-253
How to cite this article:
Gurdeep Singh "Is it possible to interpret a poem objectively?". International Journal of Advanced Educational Research, Vol 2, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 252-253
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