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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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