All these distinctions between literature and non-literature: personal expression, realization, lack of practical purpose and fictionality are restatements within a framework of semantic analysis of age old aesthetic terms such as: unity in variety, aesthetic distance, framing, invention and imitation. ... Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... In Book II of The Republic, Plato begins a discussion of poetry which is concerned with gods an...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wordsworth's poetry is not based on imitations but on past memories. ... This suggests that poetry, like all forms of literature, does in fact evoke emotions. ... Bakhtin "[views] language-especially literary texts-in terms of discourses and dialogues. ... Bakhtin's view of language can be summed up in two terms: addressitivity and answerability. Bakhtin discusses these terms as "a word is always addressed to someone and anticipates, can generate, a response, anticipates an answer. ...

• Word Count: 2612
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Music in this case is meant to be censored so that the content citizens are exposed to will influence them to act morally in terms of political decisions and moral judgments. ... It is no surprise that music and poetry are mediums of communication, however, they do not exist to consistently instill a certain message into the youths' brain. ...

• Word Count: 1685
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Eleatic philosophers rejected the existence of plurality and change, conceiving of reality as a static one, and they denied that reality could be described in terms of the categories of ordinary experience. ... "That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them" (Socrates in Plato 7). ...

• Word Count: 1852
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate