Socrates Imitation Poetry Analysis

Socrates expressed in his dialogue with Glaucon, that Imitation poetry was an idealize concept of reality, but was the furthest from reality, calling for it to be to be abolished, because of how it damaging was to the soul of people that listened to it (251 d). According to Socrates there are only three forms of composers of reality in life, using as analogy in comparison to imitation poetry in creating what’s real, god, a carpenter, and a painter (253 b). First he described god as one the original craftsman, who made by nature demonstrated the first example of what’s counted as the prototype of the real version of everything we see in the world including furniture such as a couch. Second he said was the carpenter who fashioned their crafts

According to Socrates imitation misrepresented reality, therefore bruising the soul of those who take what imitators say into part of their reasoning because it’s not real. He believes that imitation takes advantage of the weakness of the soul, causing the mind to see the that are really not there making its hearers misinformed(259d). For him it painting and imitation is one in the same, bewitchment to soul, which in turn vexed it. Socrates claimed that imitation was so was so distance from the real version or prototype of nature whose craftsmen is god, will result in the audience getting further away from the what’s truth. Therefore, if anything is in itself not composed of truth nor is reality such as imitation and painting, it can only lead us into deeper ignorance. If it is not. If imitation is not improving the government of cities or audience as and teachers do, then there is no need for it according to Socrates. With this being said, Socrates only solution to the poison of imitation is to do away with it all at once or for the Imitator to acquire knowledge of what they are imitating, to avoid deceiving people with false image of