Salient features of Plato's attack on poetry

MEG-05

Literary Criticism & Theory

1. Bring out the salient features of Plato's attack on poetry.

Ans:

           Plato, the great Greek philosopher who possesses stubborn views on art, poet and poetry unleashes a series of attacks on poetry. His views and opinions are largely mentioned in his Republic. Most of the opinions of Plato are objections to poetry. Plato definitely believed that poetry had power, and that power made people want to imitate what they saw in art. This sounds bad for him because of his metaphysical beliefs

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