Poetics
How do tragic stories dealing with sorrow and suffering ultimately purify our hearts?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Why do we go to such trouble, spending money and time, to watch tragic films and weep? When I first truly grasped Aristotle's concept of "catharsis," I struck my knee in recognition. The idea is this: in the moment we feel pity and fear, deeply sharing in another's suffering, the sediment within us is washed clean away. This small book is no mere treatise on literary theory. It is a map of the soul, showing why human beings are spellbound by stories, and how fiction heals us in the most truthful way of all.
"Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals."Aristotle, Poetics
"시는 역사보다 더 철학적이고 진지하다. 역사는 개별적인 것을 말하지만, 시는 보편적인 것을 말하기 때문이다."
🌱Apply It Today
Recall a film or book that recently moved you deeply or brought you to tears, and calmly record how that fictional story gave release to your pent-up emotions.
