Poetry and Literature Worldview
All writing nearly serve the same goal of communicating or sending a message to the reader or the audience. The most commonly used forms of communication in writing are prose and poetry form. Despite serving the same goals, the two forms of writing differ in a great way. Major differences between poetry and other discourses include;
Ideas in poetry are given in the form of lines that are complete or incomplete sentences that are arranged in stanzas. For discourse, ideas are incomplete sentences that are arranged in complete paragraphs.
The language used appears to be decorated with the inclusion of rhyme, comparisons, and rhythm that contribute to the sounding and the feel of the poem. On the other hand, the language used in discourses is always straightforward with few decorations.
Finally, poetry employs the art of line breaks to make the poem follow a certain rhythm of the poem. For discourses, no line breaks employed with sentences running from left to the right margin.
Worldview is defined as the cognitive orientation of an individual or society’s actions to the wider view by the world or the universe. In literature and poems, worldview means the judgment made by the world in relation to the character’s actions. The worldview tends to be right or wrong at times.
Othello Act by Shakespeare employs characters whose acts have a different meaning in a worldview perspective. The play is based on a Christian background, with characters continuously employing biblical impressions. However, all these impressions are fake at worldview. For instance, in Act 1 scene 1, Iago pretends to use biblical language, but he only uses them in a manner that it will produce the effect that he knows it will aid him toward his virtuous personality. He says, “Heaven is my judge” (Act 1 scene 1), yet he attacks Brabantio’s with the deepest fear. Thus, Iago in the Act pretends to be deeply religious, but in worldview, he uses it for individual benefits.
References
Lipstein, Freddi. “Othello (Review).” Shakespeare Bulletin, vol. 24, no. 2, 2006, pp. 78–81, 10.1353/shb.2006.0032. Accessed 13 Feb. 2019.