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For one thing, the measure itĮmploys is musical and affective, not merely mathematical (if poetry The same, ofĬourse, could be said of the sciences, but poetry is obviously distinctįrom the sciences in a number of ways. Ultimately, poetry employs measure in order to measure. It is not, ofĬourse, that the world is merely given to the poet: poetry invention īut this too involves measuring and cannot be separated from measuring. In proportion, judging, evaluating, and criticizing. Of the poet involves measuring one thing against another, putting things Say that, in addition to presenting and representing the world, the task Verses as numbers and considered music and poetry to be a kind ofĬounting without being aware that one was counting. Wholly taken up with measuring, and, in a sense, nothing more than a Not only does poetry employ measure, it is Precision it is at least potentially more rather than less precise than Thought of as vague, to the extent that it employs measure with Knowledge and though to the popular imagination poetry is sometimes Way of approaching, grasping, and communicating experience, truth, or Like those other forms of discourse, poetry can be seen as a Measure differs from that of other disciplines and other forms ofĭiscourse. Poetry employs measure, but its relationship to the concept of "oets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World." (1) Government recalls Shelley's maxim in A Defence of Poetry that The latent connection, implicit in the various meanings of the word, between poetry and legislation or With actions or legislative acts (a step planned or taken as a mean toĪn end a proposed legislative act). Musical beats located between two vertical lines on a staff), and some Or movement a metrical unit, foot a grouping of a specified number of
Some with music and poetry (a melody, tune, or dance rhythmic structure Instrument for measuring and a system for standard units of meaning), Suitable limit the dimensions of something being measured an Limits (an adequate or due portion a moderate degree a fixed or Among the various definitions that theĭictionary provides for the noun, some deal with proportionality and The word, in both its noun and verb forms, encompasses a Jurisprudence, and such moral and ethical ideals as moderation and The concept of measure embraces music and mathematics, law and APA style: 'Is there a measure on earth?': Holderlin's poem 'In Lovely Blueness' in light of Heidegger's essay '.Poetically Man Dwells.'." Retrieved from 'Is there a measure on earth?': Holderlin's poem 'In Lovely Blueness' in light of Heidegger's essay '. 2010 The Society for Philosophy and Literary Studies 08 Dec.
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