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2. Aristotle's Poetics

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What Aristotle Says About Good Poems

Aristotle says that good poetry must plausibly represent what the poet intends to represent. It's not necessarily a flaw in a poem if it represents things as they're not, and if it represents immoral actions. Aristotle is always addressing Plato here; he wrote a work called Homeric Problems.

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