This quote is saying that there is one meaning of poetry and only one. ... If we replace the law with poetry we can see that this is Perrine's argument, that there is one interpretation to poetry. ... When the I focused on the word poetry I could still piece together Perrine's argument that there are a limited amount of interpretations to something but only in regards to poetry. This happened because I was so focuses is so focused on poetry I thought that this entire essay was only in regards to poetry. ... All of these pieces made me think that this essay was only about the interpre...

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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 and heroes. He condemns much of this poetry as lies, "and still further because their lies are not attractive" (Republic, II, p24). ... Such poetry, then, is lies and may be an imitation, but it is not an imitation of any truth and therefore must be condemned. ... And later, in Book X, Plato claims ...

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He said referential statements deal with poetry because they deal with the false statements and deal with emotions of the poet. ... In objective correlatively, approach Eliot showed, poetry should be impersonal and there should be no expression of biography. ...

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• Grade Level: High School