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    It is not the case that Poetry engages our deepest emotions more thoroughly than painting or music, including the feeling of being alive itself.

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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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    • 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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