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Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

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The Artistic Use of Words in Poetry

The plot of the poem can be very abstract, right? So when I saw it, there's a turn at a certain point. Metaphor is one of the forms of symbolism that Langer is highly interested in. And even it gets even more complicated than that, because poems often do have arguments,. They do have ideas, they have theses, right? Milton's Paradise Lost tells you the argument of each section. The argument begins and they'll summarize it. This is what I'm arguing. So you can even use rational argument. You could even use discursive argument can become the clay out of which you make a artistically significant form. Anything can be treated as the matter

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