LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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*that poetry is an “imitative” art.
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that poetry rouses the emotions
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that the rousing of the emotions by poetry has an effect upon the whole personality of the spectator
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That poetry produces a dangerous excess of emotions in real life
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Detailed explanation-1: -Aristotle rejected Plato’s theory of Forms but not the notion of form itself. For Aristotle, forms do not exist independently of things-every form is the form of some thing.
Detailed explanation-2: -On this basis Plato called poetry untrue and unreal. Aristotle’s answer to these charges is that poetry is not reality but a higher reality, what ought to be not what is. Poetry gives not reality but the idea of reality in the poet’s mind. Poetry rather gives us Ideal reality.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.