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By : Payal Patel M.A Part – 1 Roll no – 32

2010-11

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• All art- mimetic by nature• Art- an imitation of life• Idea- ultimate reality• Art imitates idea-imitation of reality• Gives example of chair• Poetry- twice removed from reality• His importance to PHILOSOPHY

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• Defined by ‘mythos’ and ‘praxis’• Closer to image, imagination and

imitation• He becomes defender of mimesis-

guru in his writings ‘Poetics’- ‘‘Plato’s

Objection and his theory of mimesis”• Mimetic art is superior- philosophy

and history• Compares poetry with history 3

• Historian- What has happened?• Poet- What may /ought to have

happened?• History- particular, Poetry- universal• All types of art-mimetic-may differ in

manner, means and object of imitation

• Music-in sound, rhythm. Painting-in color

Poetry- in action, word• “The poet does not imitate reality but

brings reality into existence through mimesis” 4

• Moral nature- the end of Poetry is to please

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Special thanks to Barad Sir and Devarshi Sir….for giving the

guidance of this subject

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