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    It is not the case that Poetry's use of artificial signs is paradoxically more emotionally effective than the natural signs used by other arts.

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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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    • 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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