ENGL 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aeschylus
5 Apr 2016
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In general, poetry imitates life through rhythm, language, and harmony. This is more pronounced in music or dance, but even verse poetry can accomplish imitaion through language alone. 2 object of imitaion: art seeks to imitate men in acion - hence the term "drama" (dramitas, in greek). Cleophon "as they are", nichochares "worse than they are. " But more important is a general disincion that aristotle makes between forms of drama: comedy represents men as worse then they are, tragedy as beter than they are in actual life. 3 mode of imitaion: a poet can imitate either through, narraion taking of another personality, speaks in his own person, presents all his characters as living and moving before us. 4 poetry emerged for two reasons: man"s insinct to imitate things b. 5 evoluion of poetry: evolved in two direcions, one group imitated noble acions, one group imitated the acions of meaner persons in the form of saire.
