by Joe Weil
Poetry and Poetics
Teaching Poetry: Obedience vs. Conformity
By Joe Weil
We must teach our students to reinvent the wheel over and over again, to go back to origins and test them.
We must teach our students to reinvent the wheel over and over again, to go back to origins and test them.
by Emily Vogel
Poetry and Poetics
On Mimesis
By Emily Vogel
Aristotle meant that poetry was mimetic of all of things, independent of another poet’s unique perspective. It is not necessary that poets imitate other poets, but that they imitate life.
Aristotle meant that poetry was mimetic of all of things, independent of another poet’s unique perspective. It is not necessary that poets imitate other poets, but that they imitate life.