Archive for the ‘Aesthetics’ Category

Entry 37 — Didacticry

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

A real quickie today: just the introduction of a coinage, “didacticry” dih DAH tih kree, meaning poemlike text who main intent is clearly didactic, not aesthetic.  For example: “Early to bed. early to rise,/ Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”  Part of my campaign to limit the definition of poetry to literature, which I limit to verbal expression intended mainly to cause aesthetic pleasure.  “Early to bed,” causes some such pleasure but is mainly advocature in that it is an attempt to persuade its readers of the virtue of going to be early and rising early.