Aristotle’s theory of imitation

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Aristotle’s theory of imitation
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Aristotle’s term “#imitation”; Plato was
the first to use the word in relation
to poetry, but Aristotle in a specific
sense breathed again. Imitation is no
longer considered poetic imitation,
but is considered an act of
imaginative creation in which the
poet drew his material from the
world of phenomena, it is something
new. In the opinion of Aristotle, the
principle of imitation linking poetry
with other arts and is the common
basis of all the arts. It is different to
the category of fine arts from the
other arts. Although Plato equates
poetry with painting, Aristotle
compares with the music. It is not a
representation of slaves in the
appearance of things, but it becomes
a representation of the passions and
emotions of men who are imitated by
the music. Aristotle and his theory
#expanded the reach of imitation. The
poet does not imitate the surface of
things, but actually integrated into
the interior. In the first chapter of the
Poetics, Aristotle says:
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“Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy
also and Dithyrambic poetry, as also
the music of the flute and the lyre in
most of their forms, are in their
general conception modes of
imitation. They differ however, from
one another in three respects – their
medium, the objects and the manner
or mode of imitation, being in each
case distinct.”
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Tool for the poet and painter are
different. A imitates, through form
and color, and the other through
language, rhythm and harmony.
Musician imitates, through rhythm
and harmony. So, poetry is closer to
the music. In addition, the way a
poet can not only be storytelling, as
epic or a description of the activities
through the drama of the genre. The
poem is a dramatic distinction
between tragedy and comedy in the
same way that mimics the human
being better or worse.
Aristotle says that the poetic
imitation #objects are “men in action”.
The poet represents the greatest men
of them. He can make men better in
real life is based on documentation
submitted by the history and legend,
and no living person. The poet
selects and organizes the material
and creates a reality. He brings order
out of chaos. #Irrational or #accidental
erasure and attention has been
focused on solid and significant. So
it gives a true ideal of its kind. His
mind is not tied to reality:
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“It is not the function of the poet to
relate what has happened but what
may happen – according to the laws
of probability or necessity.”
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The story tells us what really
happened, the poetry of what can
happen. Poetry tends to express the
universal, the particular story. So, he
shows the superiority of poetry over
history. Poet, freed from the tyranny
of facts, it will take a larger view of
things or a general, in particular,
represents the universal, and then
shares the philosopher want the
ultimate truth. He so identified with
poetry, philosophy, and shows that
both is means to a higher truth. The
word “#Universal” Aristotle means:
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“How can a person of a certain
nature or type of will, on a particular
occasion, to speak or act according
to the law of #probability or
necessity.”
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The poet continues to increase,
especially public. He examines in
particular, and discovers the
principles of general application. She
exceeds the boundaries of life
without violating the essential laws
of human nature. Elsewhere, Aristotle
says, “Art imitates nature”. By
Nature, did not mean that the outside
world was created things, but the
“creative force, generating principle
of the universe”. Art produces mainly
within the process, the physical
energy to process, acts, events, and
a situation which is included to the
extent that arise from within, an act
of will, or do some activity of thought
or feeling. She makes men, “as they
should be”.
The poet imitates the nature of the
creative process, but the objects are
the “#men in action”. Now the ‘action’
may be ‘external’ or ‘internal’. The
operation of the soul may be caused
by what happens to a man. This
brings the human experience,
emotions and passions in a poetic
imitation. According Aristotle’s
theory, moral properties, the
properties, the nature of permanent,
temporary feelings of the mind and
feelings are all the elements of
action, and imitation in a poetic way.
Poetry can imitate men better or
worse than they are in real life, or to
emulate as they really are. The
tragedy and the epic men represent
a heroic scale, better than what they
are, and the comedy of men is a
smaller type, are the worst … what
Aristotle discuss a third option
means that poetry is not meant to
photographic realism in this context,
RA Scott-James points out that:
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“Aristotle knew nothing of the
“realistic” or “fleshy” school of
fiction – the school of Zola or of
Gissing.”
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Abercrombie, however, Aristotle
defends not to discuss the third
alternative. He said:
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“It can only imagine life as it is, but
the interesting thing is to imagine
life as it could be, and is, therefore,
that the impulse and imagination to
inspire poetry.”
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Aristotle in his theory of imitation
answers responsibility of #Plato that
poetry is an imitation of the “ghost
shadows”, three times removed from
the truth, and the poet seduces us
with lies. Plato condemns poetry,
which of course poets has no idea
of ​​the truth. The phenomenal world is
not reality, but a copy of reality in
the mind of the Supreme Court. The
poet imitates the objects and
phenomena in the world that are
shaded and unreal. Poetry is “the
mother of lies”.
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“Objects which in them we view with
pain, we are happy to contemplate
when reproduced with fidelity
minutes, as the forms of the vilest
animals and cadavers”.
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The real and the ideal point of view
of Aristotle, not opposite, the ideal is
real, and deprived of the possibility
of an accident, purified form of
reality. And this is all the greater the
‘reality’ that must be poetic imitation.
The idealization is obtained through
the sale of real everything is
accidental, transitory and, in
particular. Poetry imitates it an ideal
and universal, “an idealized
representation of a character,
emotion, and action – in mind
manifest” as poetic truth is therefore
higher than the historical truth.
Poetry is more philosophical, to
promote a better understanding of
philosophy itself.