The text and nothing but the text

            John Crowe Ransom explains “ The critic should regard the poem as nothing short of a desperate ontological or metaphysical maneuver. “ Though I agree that a poem should try to explain knowing or being, a poem does not have to always be abstract. In my opinion, though I’m probably biased, is

that the author does be completely separated from their inner thoughts. And the reader does not always have to just simply look at the imagery and meter of the poem.
        
           New criticism has some points that I agree with, such ias close reading, And others, such as the fact that as the reader you were not supposed to take any background from the authors life or the times that they were living in. All of that background and history seeps into the poem unconsciously, without meaning to or not. This seems almost inescapable unless you completely ignore it as the readers. That is probably why