```tracker searchType: frontmatter searchTarget: weight folder: daily notes line: title: Weight Tracker yAxisLabel: weight lineColor: blue ``` [[Design Paper –Plans, scraps, and brainstorms]] [[Advisory Board Meeting]] Mental Artifacts Conference # Francesco's Talk – Philosophy of Poetry 13th June 2025 - [[aesthetic dimension]] of our experience of poetry. - written vs spoken? - Bradley says: - The 'form and content of a poem are inseparable' says Bradley - fusion of content and form are where the [[aesthetic value]] lies. - supported by the heresy of paraphrase - Connotation seems important. VT: the [[aesthetic value]] of poetry lies in [[the unity]] of form and content that poetry achieves. - vs formalism - vs content reductionism - Lepore: 'A poem quotes the vehicle in itself' - Objection: poetry does not have a special syntactic element that allows interpreters to recognise that a quotation like behvaiour is in place - but isn't something being presented as a poem? - Bradley talks about experience of resonant meaning - in poetry the meaning and the sounds are one - apprehending the meaning "in the words" ### Form Content Unity - interesting comparison with music maybe? - or image perception? - meaning? Is this an interesting difference between poetry and images? ## inner speech and and listening in my mind's ear - 'we hear our own voice' says Francesco - could it also be connected up to motor imagery? - Ribeiro's personal dimension? ## inflection in poetry # Hopkins quote on depiction and twofoldness >A skilled artist is in part one who can elicit a rich world visible in the surface from a relatively limited design—someone able to convey a great deal with scant resources. Appreciating pictures is in part appreciating how this has been achieved (Wollheim 1987). Indeed, this is central to appreciating them as pictures, since it is only in pictures that those resources (design) are used to produce that effect (seeing-in). The second account of inflection’s importance takes it to lie in the way it allows us to appreciate emergence. After all, inflection precisely straddles the divide between design and the world visible in it. [[The idea]] is that in doing so it offers us the opportunity better to appreciate how the one emerges from the other. - from Inflected Pictorial Experience 1. motor imagery for speech? 2. jabberwocky 3. content vs meaning # Speaking Out loud is almost Proprioceptive - moving your hand and feeling it move - moving your vocal tract and hearing it move