Ch: 1- 'Imitation' the common principle of the Arts of Poetry. Poetry, music, and dance are modes of imitation, differing in medium, objects, and manner. Music employs harmony and rhythm, while dance uses rhythm alone to imitate character, emotion, and action. Poetry imitates through language, using prose or verse in various meters. Despite the medium, imitation is key, not the form. Elegiac and epic poets are named for their meter, but the essence of being a poet lies in the act of imitation. Some arts, like Dithyrambic and Nomic poetry, as well as Tragedy and Comedy, use rhythm, tune, and meter either in combination or separately, defining their unique characteristics. Ch: 2- The Objects of Imitation. The passage discusses how imitation in art, whether in painting, poetry, or music, represents men as either better, worse, or true to life. It highlights that different artists and genres portray these variations: Polygnotus depicted men nobler, Pauson less noble, and Dionysius
Take Materials: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Francis Bacon, Feminist Fiction, Master's Degree English, English Literature, Victorian Age, First Tragedy in English, and Literary Criticism.