Socio-historical reading can locate a poem’s moment of composition in society

Evidence

Using as examples Eduard Mörike’s Auf einer Wanderung' and Stefan George's Im windes-weben’ from the poem cycle Der siebte Ring, Adorno demonstrated what it meant to identify the historical moment that a poem recorded by interpreting it in terms of society. He saw in Mörike the beginning of a phase in which lyric poetry only continued to be possible as a tenuous, fragile appeal to the dream of immediacy in lifewithin a society which was more and more clearly destroying that dream. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2222

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what Adorno meant by identifying the historical moment a poem records via social interpretation.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno read poems as historical records of society’s contradictions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2221; Literary forms depend on the social structure of the experience they arise from. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 697; Moorish-themed literary texts should be read as historical evidence — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 948 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno read poems as historical records of society’s contradictions #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2221
• Moorish-themed literary texts should be read as historical evidence #exemplifies (0.85) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 948
• Literary forms depend on the social structure of the experience they arise from. #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 697