Why poems must have meanings to have aesthetic value.
Assumption of truth and beauty as good (plato)
Beauty
A quality imitating an experience, sensation ect. In harmony with human nature
• the work of art is the attainment of an ideal
• art imitates general psychological impulses of melody, rhythm—suggested impulses in a work of art correspond with natural movement, speech patterns, dynamics in dialectical interchange
• achieves a balance of tension and relaxation of yearnings and satisfaction—“set-up and payoff” , controlling aspects of the poem that is recognizable and relative to the reader, arousing holistic sentiment through suggestions
• is beautiful through harmony with the conditions offered in the frame of the poem, through internal dynamics, connotation ect. in threads relationship of each word to the one beside it, one line to the next ect. And to the whole.
• Emotion is dependent on the organic excitations of any given idea (connotation—literal or metaphysical)
• Response to suggestions( words, phrases, ect.) have the appropriate emotional tone to natural tensions and relaxations
• Organic Reverberation
• A quality which stimulates the sum of the human experience in harmony with said quality’s own nature. a commentary—(metaphor, symbol, image ect) of the human experience identifiable by that metaphor’s connotation relative to instinctual responses.
• The “aesthetic experience” is a positive tone of the general aesthetic attitude, the positive response is a confirmation of aesthetic excellence in the poem, work
• If something can be labeled excellent or successful, there must be a standard, an assigned value and judgment, and therefore must be a philosophical foundation
• Beauty then becomes a value and standard. Anything of value presupposes fulfillment to an end, therefore a poem/work must fulfill an end to attain aesthetic excellence—beauty
• The beautiful work is necessitated by the possibility of the aesthetic experience therefore beauty is a fulfillment under the conditions of human perception.
• A work of art is judged by its attainment of an ideal. Its aesthetic value being based on the effectiveness of its elements and inner dynamics as they fulfill an end relative to the human experience as it is perceived.
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-Steven Leake January 19, 2008
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