analye poem b subjective approach

Definition of Subjective Approach

The subjective approach to a poem begins with personal interest in the poem. That is, when one has read a poem he has encountered the statement of a certain experience. Then he wants to respond to that

experience through a consideration of his own experience.

Subjective approach in analyzing a poem is an approach to analyze a poem from the point of view of the reader. So the interpretation is based on what is in reader’s mind or according to the experience felt by the reader.

A subjective response to a poem is molded by individual experience. When we are making personalized remarks about a poem, expressing our feelings we are making no attempt to consider the poem’s structure harmony or rhythm. We are concerned purely and exclusively with what the poem means to us.

When each of us reads a poem, then each of us would make decisions as to the precise meaning of the poem, In other word, different readers will produce different meanings of the poem. This is because every reader has a different experiential background. no two readers can share all of the same feeling about the poem; the ones they have but cannot share are all subjective.　When the term subjective is used to describe a poem, we mean that the poem is filled with personal utterances. In the subjective approach the work is significantly more difficult. For while it may be easy to articulate one’s own feelings, it is very difficult to speculate about what others might think.

The statement of a certain experience the one wants to respond to that experience through a consideration of one’s own experience. “Miles” for same readers they would shared only for seconds , as they might suspect that the poet was very aged and about to die any minute, for other  readers “miles” might be taken literally.

It is not enough to base every thing on one’s private experience, in other words it is important that the iritic of poetry try to imagine various possible subjective responses, in the objective approach there is little “wondering”  every reader must of course ask basic question in order to describe the  physical composition of the poem, but in the subjective approach the work is significantly more difficult. For while it may be easy to articulate one’s own feeling, it is very difficult to speculate about what other’s might be. Therefore, subjective is meant private, personal, emotional or individual. 

Analysis Of the Poem “All in Green Went My Love Riding” By E.E. Cummings

For this time, our group wants to take an subjective approach to E.E Cummings famous poem,” All In Green Went My Love Riding” the poem reads as follows:

All in green went my love riding By E.E Cummings

All in green went my love riding

On a great horse of gold

Into the silver dawn.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

The merry deer ran before.

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams

The swift sweet deer

The red rare deer

Four red roebuck at a white water

The cruel bugle sang before

Horn at hip went my love riding

Riding the echo down

Into the silver dawn

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

The level meadows ran before.

Softer be they than slippered sleep

The lean lithe deer

The fleet flown deer.

Four fleet does at a gold valley

The famished arrows sang before.

Bow at belt went my love riding

Riding the mountain down

Into the silver dawn.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

The sheer peaks ran before.

Paler be they than daunting death

The sleek slim deer

The tall tense deer.

Four tall stags at a green mountain

The lucky hunter sang before.

All in green went my love riding

On a great horse of gold

 Into the silver dawn.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

 My heart fell dead before.

A.     Theme

Theme is the central concept developed in a poem. It is the basic idea which the poet is trying  to convey and which, accordingly, he allows to direct his imagery. Most of the images in other word are designed to present the central theme, or mind idea, of the poem. It is usually an abstract concept which becomes  concrete trough the idiom and imagery.

The theme of the poem above is that deeply  love. That for real love about two lover that very interesting. This love that’s describes the beautifully quatrains like ”All In Green When My Love Riding” it has deep meaning where the lover has fallen in love.  

B.      Point of view

This poem take the first person point of view to tell us about the content.  It showed in the line, such as “ all in green went my love riding”, “my heart fell dead before”.

C.    Diction & figurative language

The diction that used in this poem is connotation. Like use in this line “all in green  went my love riding”. The writer said ‘green’ it is not the real meaning.

Then, the figurative language , this poem using personification, likes “the famished arrow sang before”, it doesn’t mean that the arrow really famished, but this line tells that the writer as if wants the love hopefully come to him.

D.     Poetic feet & metrical lines

Poetic feet is line seems it be divided into a number of repeated units combining the same number of accent and unaccented syllables. In this poem there are 3 poetic feet that used. There are dactylic, trochaic and iambic.

All in green when my love ridding	Poetic feet	Metrical line
All in green went my love riding	dactylic	trimeter
On a great horse of gold	dactylic	Dimeter
Into the silver dawn.	dactylic	Dimeter
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling	dactylic	trimeter
The merry deer ran before.	dactylic	trimeter
Fleeter be they than dappled dreams	dactylic	trimeter
The swift sweet deer	dactylic	Dimeter
The red rare deer	dactylic	Dimeter
Four red roebuck at a white water	dactylic	trimeter
The cruel bugle sang before	Trochaic	trimeter
Horn at hip went my love riding	dactylic	trimeter
Riding the echo down	dactylic	Dimeter
Into the silver dawn	dactylic	Dimeter
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling	Trochaic	Tetrameter
The level meadows ran before.	dactylic	trimeter
Softer be they than slippered sleep	Trochaic	Tetrameter
The lean lithe deer	Iambic	Dimeter
The fleet flown deer.	Iambic	Dimeter
Four fleet does at a gold valley	Trochaic	Tetrameter
The famished arrows sang before	dactylic	trimeter
Bow at belt went my love riding	dactylic	trimeter
Riding the mountain down	dactylic	Dimeter
Into the silver dawn.	dactylic	Dimeter
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling	dactylic	trimeter
The sheer peaks ran before.	dactylic	Dimeter
Paler be they than daunting death	dactylic	trimeter
The sleek slim deer	Iambic	Dimeter
The tall tense deer	Iambic	Dimeter
Four tall stags at a green mountain	dactylic	trimeter
The lucky hunter sang before.	dactylic	trimeter
All in green went my love riding	dactylic	trimeter
On a great horse of gold	dactylic	Dimeter
Into the silver dawn.	dactylic	Dimeter
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling	dactylic	trimeter
My heart fell dead before	dactylic	Dimeter

After we observe from the its phisical element, now we know that this poem has dactylic trimeter and the stanza is combination of couplet and tiplet, beside that the poem have figurative languange like “on a great horse of gold” in this case a horse of gold not reallya horse but its mean that a glamour and beautiful love.

E.      Stanza

All in green went my love riding

By : e.e. cummings.

All in green went my love riding

On a great horse of gold

Into the silver dawn.

• The peace is symbolized by the green color where love blossomed when the true love was showing from the through eyes with a beautiful spotlight

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

The merry deer ran before.

• A man who was amazed at the beautiful of a charming girl

Fleeter be they than dappled dreams

The swift sweet deer

The red rare deer

• Quickly sweet woman disperse of concentrate the man. And the man seemed to fall in a beautiful dream and colorful life.

Four red roebuck at a white water

The cruel bugle sang before

• Love it approached a man who Strong and handsome was in peace.

Horn at hip went my love riding

Riding the echo down

Into the silver dawn

• Now a man became faint presence in woman love.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

The level meadows ran before.

• The man decided to reach out for loving the girl before love gone away.

Softer be they than slippered sleep

The lean lithe deer

The fleet flown deer.

• Love them more softer and quieter than a deep sleep. And love quickly blossomed on these lovers.

Four fleet does at a gold valley

The famished arrows sang before.

• 4 sides of a girl there are softness, beauty, patience, and beauty has been treating the thirst of love

Bow at belt went my love riding

Riding the mountain down

 Into the silver dawn.

• The man became a weak because of the love that comes from a girl. The love changed the direction of her life in the beauty life.

 Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

 The sheer peaks ran before.

• The beauty of love is never forgotten even though the sharpness of death has brought her lover to the peak of perfection in life.

 Paler be they than daunting death

 The sleek slim deer

 The tall tense deer.

• Death like frighten when beautiful body and skin have been pale

 Four tall stags at a green mountain

 The lucky hunter sang before.

• Love usually blossom and the man still love her and always remember that love for a long time.

All in green went my love riding

 On a great horse of gold

 Into the silver dawn.

• The beauty of love still blossomed for a long time after his love pass away. and it’s called the true love.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling

 My heart fell dead before.

• Now the man kept smiling and always remember the love that was beautiful in his life. And the man will still remember love with his girlfriend before he died.

The poem that written by E.E Cumings is about the story of love, and in our group use the subjective approach to understand this poem. This poem is like a strange dream the reader may interpret in different ways. There is a feeling movement, with the hunter on horseback, the running deer, and the crouching hounds. There are the sounds of the bugle, the hunting horn, echoing down the mountain. There is a feeling of suspense of tragedy coming nearer and nearer.

This poem describes a very romantic love story in while a woman coming in love to give a great tenderness and affection for a man. Beauty and the softness of the girl can’t ignored by the men. And they are having love together. The beautiful and profound love is unable forgotten although the death had picked his lover. The men still remember and commemorate the beauty of their love for a long time. Great love remains blossomed in the heart of the man, and he will keep that love until death also came to pick him up. But no mater how you read or interpret the poem, the beauty and the melody of the sound, the delicacy and richness of the color create the romantic mood.  

F.       Message from the Poem

After reading, classifying, and comprehending the poem above, it was found a message that is the message of the poem and the message is Loving someone should wholeheartedly so death wouldn’t able to get rid of love ever. But the memory of love is not the issue without too late. Love is something that should belong to every human being. Don’t loving some one from the physical but the true of the love that comes from within a person so, that love is not easy to fade. True love will still have a special place in the heart even comes another love later.

Conclusion

The subjective approach to a poem begins the personal interest in the poem. The statement of a certain experience the one wants to respond to that experience through a consideration of one’s own experience.

 In other words, a subjective response to a poem is molded by individual experience. When we are making personalized remarks about a poem, expressing our feelings we are making no attempt to consider the poem’s structure harmony or rhythm it would be wrong for reader to take an exclusively.

In other words it is important that the eristic of poetry try to imagine various possible subjective responses, in the objective approach there is little “wondering”  every reader must of course ask basic question in order to describe the physical composition of the poem, but in the subjective approach the work is significantly more difficult. For while it may be easy to articulate one’s own felling, it is very difficult to speculate about what other’s might be.

3.2.  Suggestions

1.      For the lecturer

The lecturer has to give motivation to the college student in analyzing poetry by giving exercise to the materials after making presentation.

 For the college student

Try to find out something new for your life from right now trough the education.

For the reader

Don’t forget to read this literature paper, the writer believe that you can get more information and knowledge about fundamental approach especially subjective approach

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Reaske, C.R. 1966. How to Analyze Poetry. New York: Monarch Press.

Macmilan, James. 1984. Appreciating Literature. Macmilan Publishing Company, a division of Macmilan, Inc