Plato
Plato attacks poetry on two main fronts, claims to knowledge and as imitations. The poet as Plato knew him was a religious being, who was divinely inspired by the muse. It is therefore futile to attempt an analysis of the modern poet in comparison with the mythic poet. Instead, we must search our society to find a group which best resembles the mythic poet. And then, explore whether Plato's attacks still holds true against are new modern foe of philosophy, if any foe exist at all. The mythic poetry exiled from Plato's republic expresses a way of communicating history and emotion, unlike today's poetry , which expresses and communicates only emotions. The modern reader commonly interprets Plato's expulsion of poets as an attack on the emotional part of are being. However, this attack was not on poets as we understand the meaning of poetry it was on a form of thinking and communicating important information. During Plato's era written communication and conceptual thinking was just beginning to come into existence on a mass scale. The Greek alphabet was created well
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Approximate Word count = 3005
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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