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8743854 No.8743854 [Reply] [Original]

Isn't poetry merely a fetishization of language?
A writer uses language to express the beauty of thought
A poet uses language to express the beauty of language

>> No.8743856

Why do pseuds love the word "fetishize" so much?

>> No.8743857

>>8743854
Kind of
Not really

No

>> No.8743864

>>8743857
(golf claps)

>>8743854
Poetry is ultimately art. Art is a medium of expression. Skillful art expresses skillfully. Nothing more to it.

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8743867

>beauty of thought

>> No.8745147

Gay question.
Next.

>> No.8745159

>>8743856
Because they are mostly poor people with sour grapes syndrome.

200 years ago they were thumping bibles and trying to ban dancing. Now it's Das Kapital and trying to ban sex.

>> No.8745180

>>8743854
If you look at it, yes - literature is autotelic in itself and that is precisely because it is continuously self-referential. Poetry makes use of the poetic function of language, which, according to Roman Jakobson, is "the application of the principle of equivalence to the axis of combination". In plain words: what matters in poetry is language.

>> No.8745328

>>8743856
I smell the fallacy here, you bastard, lemme just check my latin fallacies infographic

>> No.8745331

>>8743856
>M-my interests have that much worth inheritantly!!

>> No.8745332

>>8743854
>A poet uses language to express the beauty of language
Jesus fuck read some actual poetry first.