What Is artwork?

According to Aristole poetry is defined as a mean of mimesis or imitation. He says as humans we are naturally interested in poetry. For instance, his writing focuses on tragedy , many of us are going through tragedy but it also helps us to arouse emotions of fear and pity. Aristole, defines fear as felt for ourselves fear of how we would feel in their position a sense of a fellow feeling or feeling with someone. Pity is defined as felt for someone who comes to grief without deserving it. Aristole says ” There are, again, some arts which employ all the means above mentioned- namely, rhythm, tune, and meter. Such are Dithyrambic and Nomic poetry, and also Tragedy and Comedy;”( part 1). He is stating how art can either harm us since it’s bringing up fear and pity. For instance, If a person doesn’t feel or isn’t going through an emotion, grief, or feeling depressed we can laugh at others since they don’t know what It feels like to be in their position. In addition , he divided tragedy into six parts. First one is having a plot , character, thought, dictation, melody snd spectacle. He states how having a plot should follow unity throughout the whole sequence. But the plot can still be enhanced by a use of reversal and recognition. Aristole discusses thought and diction , thought is usually longer more fantastic and deals with more action. and after reading his work, In my opinion the three words that are used in his writing are thought, diction, and plot.

Based of Aristoles work and readings I can relate to his message of artwork in poetry and how it imitates a message to a couple of us.For instance, nowadays when we see a homeless person staring or standing on the side of the street asking for help, either money or food, we drive pass them and we get a feeling of either ” I did something good today by giving them my spare change ” or ” he can go find a job”. We get into this thought because either we see other people in front of you giving them “money” and you follow their actions just to fit in. Or you drive off because the first two card in front of you drove off and didn’t give them anything. It’s all a matter of what we see being done and then as humans we make up our minds to do something. (word count 407).