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people understand what he was talking about. In
I.A. Richard’s Practical Criticism , which was a very
big influence on him, he found the method by which
one would look at a poem for effect, not like Leavis
or other new critics who would look at the poem as
the evidence and studying the evidence
independent of the use of that particular thing. He
found the poem was important in terms of the
communication medium. And he applied that to
advertising and that’s what became The
Mechanical Bride . He applied the methods of the
impact or the intended effects of the poem, right
against what the rest of what the New Criticism
was saying. He was putting the reader forward. He