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The most powerful and productive strategy of New Critical reading follows the two-step movement developed by Empson. In the first step,words in a poem are seen as having an unusual fulness of meaning,thus allowing the critic to open up all their dictionary senses and qualitative connotations. In the second step,the yield of meaning from one word(or small group of words)is cross-related to the yield from other words,simultaneously back and forth across the poem. Tradition and Individual Talentby T. S. Eliot part two The background of Tradition and Individual Talent Eliot notion of literary tradition Individual talent and impersonality How to be a great poet by the way of tradition and individual talent? The background of Tradition and Individual Talent At the end of 19th century,the economic recovery and the shadow of war ↓ ↓ wealthy\abundant life hard to escape it in low sprits lived a decayed life lost faith The sudden change of literature: Do sth unconventional or unorthodox The influence of Romanticism:emphasize on individual throw the excellent tradition and convention away Eliot saw through clearly the crisis of society,and expected to rescue something suvival from the disorder world in order to recover social order and stabilization(Wellek,1991:255) IN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. ...Seldom, perhaps, does the word appear except in a phrase of censure. If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing arch?ological reconstruction. 在英文著述中中我们不常说起传统，虽然有时候也用它的名字来惋惜她的缺乏···这种字眼恐怕不常见，除非在贬责一类的语句中。不然的话，也是用来表示一种浮华的称许，而言外对于所称许的作品不过是认作一件有趣的考古学的复制品而已。 Eliots notion of literary tradition No repetition; Yet if the only form of traditi