Psychological Criticism In A Narrow Fellow In The Grass

Can a poem actually have psychological characteristics that influence how we view the story that is being told? That is what will be found out at the end of this essay when psychological criticism is used to conduct a view on the author or speaker’s motivation in the poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass”. Finding disguised psychological traits such as fear, love, or hate. Also, finding out specific developmental concepts that help to explain the behavior’s that are portrayed by the speaker or author in this poem. Now, to find out if any type of psychological characteristic may connect to “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” it will be analyzed line by line to find any type of associations in the poem to psychological ideology. First off, the first stanza begins the poem off in a subtle, but precarious way. The poem starts the reader off with a riddle which in due reading lets us know …show more content…
This man goes out of his way to tell the reader that he not only does he know “Nature’s People” but that they know him as well. It appears as though the speaker is talking about animals and creatures, specifically the snake. Yet again the speaker personifies not only the snake, but all animals with human traits by saying that they know him as well. When we talk about psychological criticism it seems as though this man may be a little crazy. The man is giving the animals a type of anthropomorphism, which is dreadfully out of the norm. Next, the man says “I feel for them a transport/Of Cordiality” (lines 19-20). So in other words this man feels a great sense of pleasure when he cares for the animals with his own hospitality. From a psychological stand point it seems as though something may be wrong with this man and that some people may even say he has a psychotic disorder, but if it were put simply, we could conclude that this man just loves