Analysis of On the Critical Attitude
Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)
The critical attitude
Strikes many people as unfruitful
That is because they find the state
Impervious to their criticism
But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude
Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms
And states can be demolished by it.
Canalising a river
Grafting a fruit tree
Educating a person
Transforming a state
These are instances of fruitful criticism
And at the same time instances of art.
| Scheme | AXBCAXX XXXBCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 1101011 11011101 010011100 1101111110 1100101011001 011101011 1010 10011 100010 01001 11100110100 0101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 412 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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