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    It is not the case that Poetry is not restricted to the depiction of events and can effectively represent anything.

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    • 1.Poetry unfolds signs temporally in sequence, making it naturally suited to representing actions and events rather than static spatial wholes.
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    • 2.The sequential, temporal structure of language imposes a real constraint on poetic representation that is intrinsic to the medium, not merely conventional.
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    • 3.Therefore, poetry's artificial signs are not fully unconstrained but are bounded by the temporal logic of their articulation, privileging narrative over description.
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    • 1.Lessing argued in Laokoon that attempting to represent static visual objects through sequential verbal signs produces obscure, ineffective poetry.
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    • 2.The ineffectiveness of descriptive poetry is not a contingent failure of skill but a structural mismatch between the temporal medium and spatial subject matter.
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    • 3.A medium that systematically fails to represent a class of objects when it attempts to do so is genuinely restricted from effectively representing that class.
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    • 1.Poetry uses primarily artificial rather than natural signs.
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    • 2.Artificial signs are not constrained in their content by the natural properties of the signs themselves.
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    • 3.Because poetry is unconstrained by the natural properties of its signs, poetry can represent any subject matter in the proper hands.
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