The Imitative Imitation of Music in Images and Concepts

Linguistic capacity in man is excited by the principle of the imitation of music. We can see how we even want to affix words and images to musical content, even though these images actually can teach us nothing about the dionycian content. Images are following after and trying to imitate the power of music, not the other way around. Music is itself not trying to produce the image of the pastoral scene. The pastoral scene is something which we take the power ofMusic in order to convey,. for whatever reason. Ok, next paragraph. A, if therefore we may regard lyric poetry as the imitative fulguration of music in images and conceps. And get ready for