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    Poetry can represent a body only by describing an action ... — Carmelics
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    Poetry can represent a body only by describing an action in which the body is made, used, or otherwise involved.

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    • 1.Actions are the true subjects of poetry.
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    • 2.Poetry represents elements in temporal succession, not spatial coexistence.
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    • 3.A body as a static spatial object cannot be directly rendered through temporal succession.
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    • 1.Lyric poetry can evoke the static presence of a body through accumulated sensory epithets without embedding it in any narrative action.
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    • 2.Sappho's descriptions of physical beauty and Keats's ekphrastic verse demonstrate that affective intensity, not temporal sequence, can be the primary vehicle of poetic representation.
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    • 3.If a medium can produce the cognitive and emotional effect of spatial apprehension, the distinction between temporal and spatial arts collapses as a normative constraint.
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    • 1.Lessing's argument presupposes a strict homology between a medium's physical properties and its representational capacities, which Goodman's Languages of Art shows is not warranted.
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    • 2.Symbols denote by convention and use, not by intrinsic resemblance to their referents, so poetry's temporal deployment of signs does not limit what those signs can successfully refer to.
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    Lessing continues his argument by turning to the other half of Mendelssohn’s theory, the claim that poetry is an art that can represent a succession of events over time rather than one moment in time. “Accordingly, bodies with their visible properties are the true subjects of painting,” while, since actions take place over time, “actions are the true subjects of poetry.” Thus, “painting too can imitate actions, but only by suggestion through bodies,” and again “can use only a single moment of an
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