poetics

Kenny Goldsmith [0], the guy who teaches this class, has done a lot of thinking about internet-based poetics...

Aristotle's Poetics deals with plays in addition to poems, and he discusses what sort of plots work in tragedies.

Plato's Laws and Aristotle's Poetics mark some of the earliest attempts made by man to reason about the world simply through observation and lengthy reasoning.

> repulsive Spare me the poetics, you're the only one to talk about repulsiveness in this comment chain so far.

There are native implementations, like Poetics [1].

I don't want long prosaic discussions or fine poetics.

As a piece of interesting trivia, Calvert Watkins suggests that formulas of Roman legalese derive from pre-Roman liturgical, magical, and mythological poetics so there probably is a connection between the formulaic dialect of Homer's epics and the legalese of today to the extent that it is related to Roman legalese.

; as well as the traditional and ongoing aspect, namely the body of poetry since the dawn of civilisation, the literary criticisms and appraisals that took shape around it, formal understandings of poetics, etc.

Or perhaps Aristotle’s Poetics - pop culture has value because it is mimetic, and AI generated pop culture is no less a mirror, just one which produces reflections of every moment, all the time - but rather than the grand catharsis we might experience in a work of literature with well wrought characters with whom we empathise, we find the void staring into us as we do into it.

And if you are really into this topic you can also read "The poetics of space" from Gaston Bachelard.

Said) since he said it best: "The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once wrote an analysis of what he called the poetics of space.

Computers As Theatre by Brenda Laurel; "think of the computer not as a tool but a medium." Brenda is an actress that applied Aristotle's Poetics to computer design.

Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, Marvin Carlson explains, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions." The work was lost to the Western world and often misrepresented for a long time.

Poetics aside, I have to agree with you about how the poem is a very sad story.

There are many good books on this subject, but you could do worse than dig up Aristotle's Poetics.

Tangentially related - Aristotle noticed all of this and wrote about it in relation to plays in The Poetics...