Question

Would you agree that Aristotle's treatment of tragedy in peotics constitutes a new way of looking at peotry of art? Discuss (10 marks​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Greek philosopher Aristotle, born 384 BCE, was a student of Plato’s for about 20 years at the Academy in Athens. After Plato’s death, Aristotle was invited by Philip of Macedonia to tutor his 13 year old son Alexander—the future Alexander the Great. Aristotle returned to Athens to set up his own school after Alexander became king. He lectured and wrote on the topics of natural history, logic, ethics, physics, and poetics. He died in 322 BCE. The Poetics was most likely a series of notes that Aristotle would have used when he lectured. In the piece he identifies various forms (tragedy, comedy, epic) and their elements. He defines poetry as an art that imitates: “imitation . . . is one instinct of our nature” and “the objects of imitation are men in action.” He considers “Comedy . . . an imitation of characters of a lower type;” tragedy is “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude;” Aristotle spends the greater part of the Poetics elaborating on tragedy.

Answer 2

Answer:

Negative capability, a writer's ability, “which Shakespeare possessed so enormously,” to accept “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason,” according to English poet John Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter.

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