Meaning of poeticity | Babel Free

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The quality of being poetic.

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“You seem to think⟳ that the whole virtue of tragedy lies in its poeticity; and the softer, the sweeter, the more soul-soothing, the more hushing the poetry is, the better you think⟳ it, though the audience go to sleep⟳ under your noses.”

“Faguet answers Voltaire’s remarks upon the famous couplet of Rodogune: “Il est des noeuds secrets, il est des sympathies . . .” to the effect that “the poet is always himself talking and that passion does not thus express⟳ itself,” by saying that people are accustomed to express⟳ themselves in this way, that is to say⟳, in the form⟳ of general ideas, when they are calm, as though the question⟳ could be settled with an appeal to the reality of ordinary life, whereas on the contrary it is a question⟳ of poeticity, that is to say⟳, of the tragic situation, which by its own⟳ nature, excludes couplets in certain cases, however well turned they be.”

“There are few pages which present⟳ no obscurity by traditional standards, and the novel reads as a long poem. The poeticity of My Lovely Enemy is underlined by the frequent use⟳ of quotations from poems, making the novel an actual ‘collage.’”

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