Art (Continued)
I. Art in Poetry:
a. Difference between Poetry and Prose:
1. Poetry is “set to music,” and the rhythm carries part of the message.
2. This unreality or distance from life makes it more complete and beautiful in itself.
3. The emotions and imagination picture completeness more easily than the intellect:
α. Because the desire for completeness is a feeling.
b. Completeness and understanding in Poetry:
1. Metaphor and simile a relationing of far-off things.
2. Symbol in Play replaces them: