Historical approach

Literary criticism
Objective

 To comprehend how the original author and

the readers of the work understood and
intended it
MATERIALS needed

biographies
Records,newspaper,
films
Reception studies
Influence studies
PROCEDURE

Identifywhen the literary

piece was written
Analyze the literary piece
Find clues left by the author
Interpret the literary piece
base on the event underlying
its creation by
comprehending and
analyzing the content to the
historical event.
 Back in The Home State
Nakahara Chuya-Yagio Uta (1934)

Wooden post and even the backyard is dry This is my home village
A fine weather today The winds blow with clear
resounds
Under the house are cobwebs Saying its alright to cry your
heart out
Wavering disheartendly The lowered voice of the middle-
aged
matron

In the back hills even wizened trees exhale

out Oh what have you been up to all this
time?
Oh what fine weather today The blowing winds say this to me
The wayside weed's shadows
They lament guilessly.
 Nakahara chuuya was born in a part of the city of yamaguchi
In yamaguchi prefecture in 1907.

 Only one of his poetry anthologies

Yagi no Uta (“Goat songs”.1934)
appeared while he was alive (in a self-
financed edition of two hundred copies)
he had edited a second collection.Arashi Hi no Uta
(“Songs of Bygone Days”) just before his death

Chuuya was hospitalize in chiba in January 1937.in
February he was released and moved back to kamakura.
he left a number of his wok with nakaboyashi Hedio,and
was making plans to return to his hometown of
yamaguchi
when he died in October 1937 as the aged of 30 of
cerebral
meninggitis.His grave is at his hometown of yamaguchi
Nakahara,chuya 1907-1937
 Personal: Born April 29,1907
in Yudaonsen Yamaguchi,
Japan; died from an illness

October 22, 1937, kamakura,Japan.

 CAREER:Writer

 Yagino uta;Arishi hi no uta,(title means:”Poems

of the Goat;
 Songs
of past days”)’ Sogensha showa(Tokyo,
Japan),1951,
 Yagino uta translated by RY Beville As poems of
the Goat,
 American Book (Richmond,VA,),2002.
Japanese literature

 Nakahara was born on yudaonsen, and kemio

Takashi,writing in
Comparative literature studies,

Observed thet the author’s “native town and sorounding

nature were firmly roated in his mind.”
Takashi also noted,however,that nakahara may have been
affected by his community’s distinct attitude of stressing
too much success in life among highly motivated person’s
explaining that a lot of promising young men were driven
By such careerism to central; cities
 Nakahara published his first collection of poetry in
1934

 His second poetry collection appeared in 1938 a year

after the author’s death.

 Today nakahara’s poetry was not widely read or

critically acclaimed until well after his death and added
that he is a poet worth sometime and attention .”
writing in contemporary Review
 Reymond lamont- brown commented of the piems of the
poems of Nakahara chuya

that nkahara chuya has the emotional characteristics

“ THAT NEED TO UNDERSTAND”
The moods of PITY,HEART and HUMUOR

Nevertheless, lamont-Brown added,” the selection does show

his subtle imagery.”
Thank you!
God Bless!

prepared by:
Maria therisa portaliza