In short, poetry and science are not antithetical, and, though they map our existences very differently, it would be nothing short of miraculous if both mappings did not correspond to something real. Literary evaluation began last issue with Freudian analysis, and now shifts to the more interesting and congenial approaches of the Jungian schools. From these approaches developed Structuralism, depth psychology, and Frye's myth analysis. Similar in many respects is the French Symbolist movement, which ushered in the many varieties of Modernism that contemporary literature is still exploring. Tennyson and Victorian Romanticism is the subject of our section on poetry movements.
Words have a pedigree, and a communality of literary usage which offers guarantees of truth.
The beginning of morality, said Confucius, is calling things by their proper name, and this older approach is underwritten by the classical literature of the east. There are many ways of writing poetry. Last issue's look at imagery was very abstract, and we now make amends by analysing six examples in contemporary usage. The master class continues a poem in the high Modernist manner, and then shows why the approach need complete rethinking. In our section on the poetry world we deal with making a career in poetry, and the resources page concentrates once more on poetry ezines.