Question

Critical appreciation??

what is this?​

Answer 1

Critical appreciation is when a reader examines and evaluates a piece of literature from a discerning point of view. In other words, the reader knows the work well enough to have an intelligent basis for liking or disliking something.

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Answer 2

Answer:

To begin with let us unpack the phrase – critical appreciation. To be critical means to be able to judge the value of something or someone. To show appreciation, on the other hand, implies the ability to see the good or strength in something. Thus if we put the two words together, to conduct a critical appreciation implies the ability to assess the value in something towards showing the strength or good of that something.

How would one conduct a critical appreciation of a poem for example? The following are examples of a critical appreciation on DH Lawrence’s poem ‘Snake’.