Tension Poetics Theory

The New Criticism is also known as "Tension Poetics". Because makes the text center discusses with the formalism advocated that, the New Criticism is often criticized as the pure formalism, this actually is one kind of misunderstanding. The New Criticism attach great importance to the value of poetry, request poetry through presents a rich multi-dimensional candid world to resist the reality of alienation of scientific rationality and utilitarianism. This kind of serious poetry values had determine that the New Criticism is different with the pure formalism, their " form" has surmounted the traditional content and the form two divide and has contained the content form. The New Criticism's text center discusses with all formalism advocated and their poetry values have the intrinsic relation.Embark by theirs poetry values, the New Criticism oppose the sad, the decadence, and the "self obsession of the Late Romanticism by making a Neo-Classicism slogan. However, the New Criticism and the Romanticism are inherits in the spirit, all they do is to use the Neo-Classicism to kick some drawbacks of the Late Romanticism, and they do not really need to return 16-17th century Neo-Classicism.The New Criticism has a profound understanding of poetry language, "tension" "Minute", "paradox", "Irony", and "Metaphor" are commonly used terminology. These terms and their importance is closely linked to the values of poetry of the New Criticism.This article will discuss the New Criticism diligently the inner link between the text center standpoint, formalism advocacy and the poetry values, will clear off it to the romanticism critique and the inheritance, so as to clarify the misunderstanding, meanwhile it will point out the New Criticism own contradiction, the flaw as well as the adverse impact on academic research. In all, the article will try to present the Tension Poetics objectively the complete picture, will grasp its spiritual essence. I hope that the efforts will help in some way that we are better able to absorb and draw the New Criticism.