Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

In addition, pope's essay on criticism considered a summary of neoclassical critical views and at the same time a prove for his defense of the social role of criticism. Also, the importance of the poetry is shown in the way its description of criticism as a means of keeping the traditional cultural values in a time of socioeconomic change. For pope, criticism frames the artistic description of nature and nature is idealized in his Essay with "the ancients" (Fairer 31). Almost all the poem's that pope wrote were written in the form of the heroic couplet. Pope handled the heroic couplets professionally that by reading them we can feel the flexibility of using versa form, which was an integral part of the meaning of his poems. Sounds and meaning in pope poems are also important elements that …show more content…
Through this short story the readers were connected and touched to its plot when Mrs. Mallard got her freedom. The story is really a reflection of the pragmatic theory implied by stress of the readers to figure out the nature of relationships and what they mean to a woman like Chopin. By the audience reaction to the story events we are applying the rules of the pragmatic theory that is to teach and please, in other words this theory aims to and impact the audience by its delightful instructions and in the story of an hour the readers emotions are attached to the story's events and through the story they are tensed and keen to know what will happen to Mr. Mallard. We can notice that Kate had purpose that is to achieve certain effects on the renders. Moreover, it is clear that Kate Chopin has not made a sad story as everyone expected from the beginning because she wanted to question readers believes. She also used suspense in her story like the word "killed" It is the only word used with a question mark so it makes the readers doubt its