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what are two modes of perception according to Cleanth Brooks​

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Cleanth Brooks, an eminent New Critic, advocates the centrality of paradox as a way of understanding and interpreting poetry, in his best-known works, The Language of Paradox, The Well Wrought Urn (1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939). Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism by emphasizing “the interior life of a poem” and codifying the principles of close reading. In The Language of Paradox, Brooks establishes the crucial role of paradox-by demonstrating that paradox is “the language appropriate and inevitable to poetry!’ This is because referential language is incapable of representing the specific message of a poet and the poet must “make up his language as he goes,” since words are mutable and, meaning shifts when words are placed in relation to one another.

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