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How to appreciate literary works

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How to appreciate literary works
One cannot lay down a fixed "model" for a piece of critical appreciation.The way a student approaches his critical essay will be to a large extent governed by the piece of writing that he is examining.What he has to do is to read with close attention,determine what the author was trying to do,and evaluate how,and how far,he has been successful.Did he want to make his reader see,feel,hear,laugh and understand?Did he want to persuade him of an argument,to cajole him,to bully him?What use has he made of the tools at his disposal:of words---their sounds and associations,of the structure---the length and rhythm of his sentences; of his powers of overall arrangement?What use has he made of verse-forms,of meter,of rhyme?To what faculty in us has he persuaded most?