An art form is only as broad as its medium is versatile. Verse is named so because its medium, the spoken and written word, spans much of human action and thought; and so by virtue of its medium, poetry occupies a central position among the arts. As a result the poet can use language to give his audience the rhythmic pleasures of song, the visceral aesthetic pleasures of fine art, and the pleasures felt from the growth of the mind due to philosophy; I call these audiovisuophilosophical (avp) pleasures.
Edit: it turns out the distinction of pleasures of poetry into these three categories is common. Pound famously names them audio visuo and logopoeia, Zukofsky later does the same without the fancy names.
07 March 2010
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