The Tension Theory In New Criticism

The theory of poetics tension is extraordinary important to poetry field. In20-30s last century. The United States’s literary theory critics Allen Tate put poetics into poetry field, After I.A.Richards、John Crowe Ransom、Robert Penn Warren and William k.Wimsalt expanding, and after William Vam Oconnor’extension, the core concept of tension developed from various dialectical relationship to understanding literature is a contradictory unity. Chinese scholars always have high attention to this theory, they mainly apply them to the field of the language and the form, the content, the emotion and the structure which exit in all levels of the literary, hen they continue discussing and researching. However, the system explains the theory research from a poet’s view is not common, which most of the time the researchers ignore it. Words Worth’s Poetry attracts researchers’attention from ahome and abroad. Many of his poems are to show his view of connotation of thinking of life, the comprehend of essence of life, the research of the relationship between people and nature, since the20th Century. The researchers did a lot of research to WordsWorth’s Poetry which included his poetry practice and poetry theory. The research contained rich field. Throughout the criticism and the research, some of them choose the main standponit from the life, the feminism, the new historicism; some of them choose the main standpoint from Human and Nature, and pursuit of the poetry language and beauty. But apparently WordsWorth’s Poetry of tension beauty features almost is not did a lot of further research. So this kind of defect research can’t fully open study field of understand the tension of the poetry and appreciate WordsWorth’s Poetry.