Date of Award

6-1924

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Second Advisor

John Danihy

Abstract

The range of human thoughts and emotions greatly transcends the range of such symbols as man has invented to express them; and it becomes, therefore, the place of art to use these symbols in a double way. They must be used for the direct representation of thought and feeling; but they must also be combined by so subtle an imagination as to suggest much which there is no means of directly expressing. And this can be done: for experience shows that it is possible so to arrange forms, colours, and sounds as to stimulate the Imagination in a new and inexplicable way. Poetry is both an imitative and an imaginative art. It is one of the fine arts which admit of a division into Plastic and Rhythmic. The Plastic arts comprise Sculpture, Architecture and Painting, while the Rhythmic comprehends Dancing, Music, and Poetry, those arts which have a regular order in the succession of different kinds of motion. Poetry as a system of rhythmical and melodious effects appeals to that mysterious power by which mere arrangements of sound can convey an emotion which no one could have been aware of beforehand and which no law can explain.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to fulfill the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy for the College of Journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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