poetics

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not. Joshua Cohen

is the active creation of meaning using multiple levels of social context in such a way that conventional forms are deformed.

For Herzfeld, 'poetics' has three essential elements: the active creation of meaning, the presence of more than one level of social context, and what he calls the 'expressive deformation of a conventional form within negotiable limits' (81).

is constructed by the critic who comes after the poets who create.

Poets create then critics come after to construct a poetics.

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poetics