In dancing, rhythm alone is used without ‘harmony’ even dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement. Thus in the music of the flute and of the lyre, ‘harmony’ and rhythm alone are employed also in other arts, such as that of the shepherd’s pipe, which is essentially similar to these. Or again by the voice so in the arts above mentioned, taken as a whole, the imitation is produced by rhythm, language, or ‘harmony,’ either singly or combined. They differ, however, from one: another in three respects,-the medium, the objects, the manner or mode of imitation, being in each case distinct.įor as there are persons who, by conscious art or mere habit, imitate and represent various objects through the medium of color and form, Into the number and nature of the parts of which a poem is composed and similarly into whatever else falls within the same inquiry.įollowing, then, the order of nature, let us begin with the principles which come first.Įpic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic: poetry, and the music of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms, are all in their general conception modes of imitation. I propose to treat Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem
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