Wordsworth agrees with Aristotle in this matter. Poetry is given an exalted position by Wordsworth in such a way that it treats the particular as well as the universal. Its aim is universal truth. Poetry is true to nature. A poet has to keep in mind that his end objective is to impart pleasure.
He declares poetry will adjust itself to the new discoveries and inventions of science. It will create a new idiom for the communication of new thoughts. Poetic truth ties all mankind with love and a sense of oneness.
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I welcome comments and criticism Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. The sun does not literally rise and set, but it feels true from our perspective. The literal truth—that the sun only appears to rise and set in relation to the revolutions of the earth—is less emotionally compelling. Poetic truths can be more or less harmful. As Thomas Chatterton Williams discusses in his memoir Self-Portrait In Black And White reviewed here in a correspondence on our partner site, Letter , no human being is literally black or white, but these essential racial categories confirm a particular perception of reality.
A poetic truth, then, is something that might as well be true for the sake of narrative coherence, whether or not it is ultimately true to the facts. When employed in the service of political ideology, poetic truths can justify moral intimidation and the stigmatization of anyone who questions them. Because our poetic truth is taken to be absolute, anyone who challenges it is seen as an enemy of The Good.
Cultural progressivism is a vision of society that sees inequality as a function of group identity, privilege and systemic bias. According to this narrative, the privileges of the dominant group—typically construed as whites and men—are expressed in implicit prejudice against less privileged groups over whom the dominant group wishes to maintain its advantage.
This unconscious bias against minorities and historically oppressed groups percolates through culture into our institutions to form an edifice of structural oppression, which prevents members of the disadvantaged groups from fulfilling their true potential.
Thus, cultivating an awareness of how these forces operate—through privilege, bias and institutional oppression—will make society more fair and equal. When all identity groups are close to being on par in terms of outcomes, we will have justice. The poetic truth of the cultural left is that bias produces all inequality.
Inequality between groups has both structural and behavioral explanations, not all of which admit of obvious solutions. Libertarianism or laissez-faire capitalism is predicated on the notion that spontaneous market forces, instigated through the free exchange of goods and services and facilitated by the non-aggression principle , provide the optimal path to human flourishing. By this logic, the mitigation of state power is a prerequisite to greater freedom, and the services typically provided by the state, such as healthcare and law enforcement, are better supplied by private institutions and the communal efforts of wealthy individuals than by faceless bureaucrats or government agencies.
The poetic truth of this ideology is that the private sector will always be more effective than the public sector. If this were true, we would expect countries with less government intervention to yield better social results, and nations with heavy taxation, robust welfare states and state-funded health care, such as Denmark, Switzerland and Finland, would be less agreeable places to live in than more libertarian countries, such as the US.
In fact, Denmark, Switzerland and Finland are the three highest scoring nations in reported levels of happiness, and do exceptionally well on other measures of well-being, such as peace, life expectancy and health. Of course, there are also places with more state-driven models and less desirable results—but that is precisely the point.
No single system is universally superior. Economic power corrupts in the same way as state power does. With these facts in mind, the narrative comes apart: the public and private sectors are better at providing different things in different places and other historical and cultural factors need to be taken into account.
Democratic socialism is a political philosophy in which economic and social structures are democratically operated and the effects of corporate privatization are mitigated. According to this vision, the tenets of free market capitalism, sometimes referred to as neoliberalism , work against human dignity by treating people primarily as economic inputs and outputs. A truly democratic society would allow workers to determine the rules of their own economy through public ownership and worker co-ops.
By reducing the excesses of capitalism through universal social programs and regulatory measures imposed on big business, we can all become healthier and happier. Only self-interest or false consciousness prevents us from taking such measures.
In other words, the incidents should seem believable: they should also be so connected that their order seems inevitable. Further, the character should be true to their natures and act in a credible manner.
The truth depicted by poetry is an ideal truth— i. It is a shrewd judgement by Aristotle. Aristotle thus defends poetic truth and places it on a higher level than. The poet relates what may happen, within the laws of probability. He universalises particular facts and invests permanence on transient happenings. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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