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    Poetry's use of artificial signs is paradoxically more em... — Carmelics
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    Poetry's use of artificial signs is paradoxically more emotionally effective than the natural signs used by other arts.

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    • 1.Natural signs might be expected to produce stronger emotional effects due to their directness.
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    • 2.Artificial signs allow poetry to combine the effects of multiple art forms simultaneously.
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    • 3.The combination of effects from artificial signs surpasses the emotional power of natural signs used in isolation.
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    • 1.Lessing's Laocoon demonstrates that temporal arts like poetry lose emotional force precisely because they must narrate what painting shows simultaneously.
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    • 2.The sequentiality of artificial signs in poetry dilutes the concentrated affective impact that a single natural image can deliver instantaneously.
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    • 3.Emotional effectiveness requires immediacy of apprehension, which artificial signs systematically undermine through the cognitive detour of semantic decoding.
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    • 1.Rousseau argued that conventional signs have lost the passionate, musical quality of natural language, making modern poetry emotionally impoverished compared to primitive song.
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    • 2.If artificial signs are cognitively mediated conventions, their emotional effects depend on culturally contingent competencies unavailable to all audiences, limiting their universality and thus their overall power.
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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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