The way in which Plato uses deductive logic to express his opinion allows him to fully develop his ideas without making assertions that are incredible. Plato begins with the idea of the ultimate "maker of the bed", which he refers to as G-d which is easily accepted

Plato and Shelley both portray their ideas of poetry through rhetorical devices but Plato's argument is much more solid. Because of his Socratic writing form and effective use of metaphors, Plato's devices persuasively outweigh Shelley's form, analogies and metaphors.

"Very true, but in your presence, even if I had any further notion, I could not muster courage to utter it." (43) While this Socratic writing helps Plato to make his argument even more concrete, Shelley uses essay form to portray his ideas somewhat in response to beliefs like those of Plato.

Shelley's writing differs in form from Plato's in that Shelley's is more straight forward and seems almost as if it were meant to be preached. "Reason is to the imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance." (429) The analogy th

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