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    Poetry engages our deepest emotions more thoroughly than ... — Carmelics
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    Poetry engages our deepest emotions more thoroughly than painting or music, including the feeling of being alive itself.

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    • 1.Poetry uses artificial rather than natural signs, which allows it to achieve the effects of painting and music combined.
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    • 2.Painting and music use natural signs but achieve only their respective singular effects.
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    • 3.The combination of effects from painting and music, achieved through artificial signs, enables poetry to engage deeper emotions than either art form alone.
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    • 1.Music operates through non-representational tonal structures that directly arouse feeling without conceptual mediation, as Hanslick argues in 'On the Musically Beautiful'.
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    • 2.Emotions engaged without conceptual mediation are more immediate and visceral than those filtered through linguistic interpretation.
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    • 3.Therefore, music's directness gives it a stronger claim to engaging the feeling of being alive than poetry's sign-dependent route.
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    • 1.Lessing's own argument in Laokoon demonstrates that poetry operates sequentially in time, limiting its capacity to capture the unified spatial presence that painting achieves instantaneously.
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    • 2.The feeling of being alive is phenomenologically a present-moment, simultaneous experience rather than a temporally unfolded narrative structure.
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    • 3.An art form whose medium is sequential and temporal is structurally ill-suited to engage an experience that is fundamentally synchronic and immediate.
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    Leave aside the fact that the poems of the supposed Ossian were concocted in eighteenth-century Edinburgh by James MacPherson, and were thus very much made for paper and print. Leave aside as well Herder’s supposition that the most dynamic poetry can only be composed by a “barbarous people,” Mycenaen Greeks or Scottish highlanders. The point remains that he connects the “living presence of the images” achieved by the most effective poetry with a corresponding feeling of freedom and of being aliv
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