In Ars Poetica – the “Art of Poetry” – Archibald MacLeish attempts to prescribe the nature of poetry in a move that scientist/philospher Douglas Hofstadter would have loved, he does so in the form of a poem.
In the code language of literary criticism, when a poem is said to be about poetry the word “poetry” is often used to mean: how people attempt to make intelligent sense out of random experience; how people choose what they love; how people integrate loss and gain; how they distort experience by wish and dream; how they perceive and consolidate flashes of harmony; how they achieve what John Keats called a “Soul or intelligence destined to possess the sense of identity.
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