Talk:Poetic justice

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[edit] A thing

I think something should be added about the saying "Let the dead bury the dead," but I don't know where to put it. Jesin 21:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poetry vs. history

"Aristotle says that poetry is superior to history in that it shows what should or must occur, rather than merely what does occur." Where is the citation for this? I am not able to find a phrase supporting this in Aristotle's Poetics Bryannd 06:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

At [[1]] I found

Let us now return to the points of contrast between poetry and history. Recall that there are two. First, poetry represents universals and history particulars, a difference that makes poetry more philosophical than history (9.1451a38-b7). Second, whereas poems (specifically, tragedies and epics) imitate a single, complete and whole action, a history concerns all the events in a single time that happened to one or more people and that relate to each other at random and have no single end (23.1459a17-30). Since a universal is a kind of unity (see Met. ƒ.26.1023b29-32), both contrasts are ways of saying that poems are unities and histories are not or are much less so.

O'RyanW (☺ ₪) 07:06, 18 April 2007 (UTC)