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    It is not the case that Actions are the true subjects of poetry.

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    • 1.Poetry can represent states of mind, emotions, and lyrical experience that have no inherent narrative or temporal structure.
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    • 2.Lyric poetry achieves its highest effects precisely when it arrests temporal succession in favor of concentrated feeling or contemplation.
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    • 3.If an art form's true subjects must match its mode of representation, lyric poetry's existence refutes the claim that temporality uniquely defines poetry's subject matter.
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    • 1.Lessing's own argument in the Laocoon concedes that poetry can depict bodies and spatial properties through the device of narrating actions that reveal them over time.
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    • 2.If poetry successfully represents spatial objects by converting them into temporal sequences, then actions are a representational medium for poetry, not its privileged subject matter.
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    • 3.A medium of representation cannot simultaneously be the true subject of that representation without collapsing the distinction between form and content.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Poetry represents elements in succession over time.
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    • 2.Actions are temporal, successive events.
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    • 3.An art form's true subjects are those things whose nature matches the art form's mode of representation.
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