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you mean by this.”
“Well,” said I, “we must have you understand.
Perhaps you will be more likely to apprehend it thus. Is not everything that
is said by fabulists or poets a narration of past, present, or future
things?” “What else could it be?” he said.
“Do not they proceedCf. Aristotle
Poetics
1449 b 27. either by pure narration or
by a narrative that is effected through imitation,All art is essentially imitation for Plato and Aristotle.
But imitation means for them not only the portrayal or description of
visible and tangible things, but more especially the expression of a
mood or feeling, hence the (to a modern) paradox that music is the most
imitative of the art
that part of the mind to which
mimetic poetry appeals and see whether it is the inferior or the nobly
serious part.” “So we must.” “Let
us, then, put the question thus: Mimetic poetry, we say, imitates human
beings acting under compulsion or voluntarily,Cf. 399 A-B, Laws 655 D, 814 E ff.,
Aristot.Poet.
1448 A 1-2E)PEI\ DE\
MIMOU=NTAI OI( MIMOU/MENOI PRA/TTONTAS A)NA/GKH DE\ TOU/TOUS H)\
SPOUDAI/OUS H)\ FAU/LOUS EI)=NAI, ibid.
1449 b 36-37 f. and as a result of
their actions supposing themselves to have fared well or ill and in all this
feeling either grief or joy. Did we find anything else but this?”
“Nothing.” “Is a man, then, in all this