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    It is not the case that Lessing's own analysis of the Laocoön concedes that poetry can evoke visual imagery through temporal sequencing of descriptive signs, suggesting natural signs admit of medium-transcending use.

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    • 1.Evoked imagery remains fundamentally different from visual experience—temporal description cannot replicate simultaneous spatial apprehension.
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    • 2.Lessing's core argument actually emphasizes medium-specific constraints, not transcendence: poetry excels through succession, sculpture through presence.
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    • 3.Claiming natural signs admit medium-transcending use conflates semantic content with phenomenological experience of different art forms.
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    • 1.Poetry's temporal unfolding of descriptive elements can create vivid mental imagery equivalent to visual perception through linguistic sequencing.
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    • 2.Natural signs (like words describing physical forms) can function across media because meaning transcends the modality of its presentation.
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    • 3.Lessing's own detailed analysis of the Laocoön sculpture demonstrates poetry achieving comparable representational force through different means.
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