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It gives you good insight to Ancient Greek poetry, plays and how the plots worked then. It talks about Greek words and vocabulary.
Had to read this for class, interesting but not my cup of tea.
Aristotle's "Poetics" is considered one of the most influential pieces of writing to exist, and I can understand why. Though there aren't a lot of modern works to compare his assertions to since Aristotle, obviously, exclusively discusses Greek tragedy and epic poetry it is still incredibly interesting to think about. Not to mention, at only 60 pages it's not as though it'll take a long time to finish it (though some of the thoughts are probably pretty dense to people who aren't used to reading philosophy).
Where to start? Honestly, Poetics is one of those books that makes you admire the author while you want to strangle him. This work is highly influential, and you can see its influence in Western Literature in authors such as Shakespeare, Byron, and Miller. It also makes classical literature easy to understand, at least in terms of structure.
In short, if you are interested in literature, you should read this book.
But you will also want to strangle Aristotle. Yes, he's an ancient Greek and woman's lib was years away, but when he says something like, "Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless" or ". . .valour in a woman, or unscrupulous cleverness, is inappropriate" that makes a reader want to travel back in time and cheerfully strangle the b*st**d despite the knowledge of that was how things were back then.
Still, Aristotle's comments on literature, in particular tragedy, are still relevant today. This book is worth reading simply for that.
In short, if you are interested in literature, you should read this book.
But you will also want to strangle Aristotle. Yes, he's an ancient Greek and woman's lib was years away, but when he says something like, "Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless" or ". . .valour in a woman, or unscrupulous cleverness, is inappropriate" that makes a reader want to travel back in time and cheerfully strangle the b*st**d despite the knowledge of that was how things were back then.
Still, Aristotle's comments on literature, in particular tragedy, are still relevant today. This book is worth reading simply for that.
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I didn't read the whole thing. In my AP English class, we read the section talking about tragedies and it was just a struggle. It was like being forced to read from a textbook instead of a novel or a play
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