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Aristotle - Poetics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - plot
        
        mimesis of character
        
        spectacle
        
        song-writing
        
        verbal expression
        
        mimesis of intellect
    - - Characteristics of a plot
        
        order
        
        beginning, middle and end
        
        amplitude
        
        unity
        
        Homer is a good example
        
        probable and necessary connection
  - - - When the course of events take a turn to the opposite in the way described
    - - Change from ignorance to knowledge
    - - An act involving destruction or pain
- - - - Not using speech
        
        harmony and rhythm are the media of instrumental music
        
        rhythm alone is the medium of dancing (p. 51)
        
        Do use speech
        
        Poetic kind
        
        'poet': general term meaning 'verse-makers', so can be attributed to 'those who publish a medical or scientific theory in verse'.
        
        However, Homer and Empedocles are different writers and have nothing in common except their metre, so Empedocles must be called a 'scientific writer'.
    - - People doing things, must be either good or bad.
        Poets and painters represent people as better than they are (e.g. Homer), worse than they are (e.g. Hegemon of Thasos = the inventor of parodies) or the same as in real life (e.g. Cleophon).
    - - One can represent the same objects in the same media either as:
        i) in narration or becoming someone else
        ii) speaking as oneself without change
        iii) with all people engaged in the mimēsis physically doing things