Dimensional understanding of poetry

Abstract

Integrated literary ana! ysis departsfrom the poetic text. A ndyet this hy no means implies the isolation of the poem, excluding all external references like time and belief. It is only by means o f a structural approach in which form, content and contextual relevance cohere, that the valencial potential of a text is unfolded. In this article one particular poem ‘Der Rngel. Advent’ by Reinhold Schneider has been utilized to show how the analytic consideration of the aspects of time and beliefs, reveals the total richness, the depth and dimension in the poem.