Friday, February 11, 2011

Aristotle

Reading through the beginning with rhetoric, I felt as if I had been magically transported back into my AP English class and was learning about the parts of speech all over again. I found reading this that a lot of information I had learned my senior year except in a much fancier and hard to understand tone. There were some interesting points, such as how one can become a good persuader and what defined one, but most of what I read I felt I had knowledge about previously. And learned, previously, in a simpler way.

As for the Poetic portion of the reading, I found it interesting. I feel, again, as if I were learning the same ideas I was taught in high school, however, I feel as if there's a new spin to this section. I especially enjoyed the idea of humans having this natural inclination to imitate (which sets us apart from the rest of the world) and the breaking down of the key elements of tragedy. I enjoy the examples he uses in order to obtain his point, most notably the comparison or two poets Poly and Zeuxis. I enjoyed the small, minuet detail about them.

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