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Poetics
[edit]Ancient thinkers sought to determine what makes poetry distinctive as a form and what distinguishes good poetry from bad, resulting in the development of "poetics", or the study of the aesthetics of poetry. Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Classic of History, one of the Five Classics, developed canons of poetic works that had ritual as well as aesthetic importance.
Context can be critical to poetics and to the development of poetic genres and forms. For example, poetry employed to record historical events in epics, such as Gilgamesh or Ferdowsi's Shahnameh,[1] will necessarily be lengthy and narrative, while poetry used for liturgical purposes in hymns, psalms, suras, and hadiths is likely to have an inspirational tone, whereas elegies and tragedy are intended to invoke deep internal emotional responses. Other contexts include music such as Gregorian chants, formal or diplomatic speech,[a] political rhetoric and invective,[b] light-hearted nursery and nonsense rhymes, threnodies to the deceased and even medical texts.[c]
- ^ Ferdowsi, Abolqasem (2006). Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Translated by Davis, Dick. Penguin. ISBN 0-670-03485-1.
- ^ Davis, Natalie Zemon (2006). Trickster's Travels.
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