Sentimental poetry
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Sentimental poetry is a melodramatic poetic form. It is aimed primarily at stimulating the emotion
s rather than at communicating experience truthfully. Bereavement is a common theme of sentimental poetry.
Friedrich Schiller
discussed sentimental poetry in his influential essay, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry
.
Sentimental poetry was parodied by Mark Twain
in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Emotion
Emotion is a complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience." Emotion is associated with mood,...
s rather than at communicating experience truthfully. Bereavement is a common theme of sentimental poetry.
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
discussed sentimental poetry in his influential essay, On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry
On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry
On Naive and Sentimental Poetry is a 1795 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world....
.
Sentimental poetry was parodied by Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
See also
- Sentimental novelSentimental novelThe sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th century literary genre which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility...
- SentimentalismSentimentalismSentimentalism is used in different ways:* Sentimentalism , a theory in moral epistemology concerning how one knows moral truths; also known as moral sense theory* Sentimentalism , a form of literary discourse...
- SentimentalitySentimentalitySentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason....