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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Privileged(suggesting that body size shouldn't be treated as more important than other properties): Given special treatment or considered more important or fundamental than other things.
Representational medium(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of art): A tool or method (like painting, film, or writing) that is used to depict or stand for something other than itself.
Spatial objects(as used in metaphysics and epistemology): Physical things that exist in space and have location, size, and shape—like tables, chairs, or people.
Temporal sequences(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of time): Events or moments arranged in order over time, like a story that unfolds from beginning to middle to end.
representation(Schopenhauer's Kantian framework; the empirical/phenomenal side of reality): The world as it appears to a knowing subject; objects as they are given through the subject's cognitive forms
subject matter(Contrasted with Platonic forms to establish a historically situated ontology of artistic content): That which transcends individual artworks yet does not exist apart from its historical embodiments; unlike Platonic forms, subject matters mutate and develop through history

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