objective correlative in a sentence
Examples
- The caesarian is repeatedly associated with words such as " the blanket " and " the bunk " in a series of objective correlatives, a technique Hemingway learned from T . S . Eliot.
- Eliot concludes by stating that because Shakespeare cannot find a sufficient objective correlative for his hero, the audience is left without a means to understand an experience that Shakespeare himself does not seem to understand.
- They are four characters in search of an objective correlative, their intimacies obstructed by lofty words-- honesty, cowardice, love-- that seem, after a while, to mean nothing at all.
- Only this time the chug is given an " objective correlative " in the actual chug and clack of moving trains, evoked also by periodic whistles adjusted to the ever-modulating tonalities of the speech samples.
- Washington Allston was the first to use ( apparently ) the term "'Objective Correlative "'in 1840 which subsequently revived and made famous by T . S Eliot in essay on Hamlet ( 1919 ).
- The theory of the objective correlative as it relates to literature was largely developed through the writings of the poet and literary critic T . S . Eliot, who is associated with the literary group called the New Critics.
- The only decorative word is'long-winged'( ), used to denote a dragonfly, and it emerges from the generalized meanings of the passage as an'objective correlative'for the fragility of the human condition.
- Also important to New Criticism was the idea as articulated in Eliot's essay " Hamlet and His Problems " of an " objective correlative ", which posits a connection among the words of the text and events, states of mind, and experiences.
- In " Hamlet and His Problems " Eliot presents the phrase " objective correlative . " The theory is that the expression of emotion in art can be achieved by a specific, and almost formulaic, prescription of a set of objects, including events and situations.
- The horrors of war are too easily rendered as Kantian sublimities for which the stateside mind can find no objective correlative; Levato suffuses us, instead, in the facts, figures, and bureaucratic speech out of which real-time horrors are in actuality composed.