On "Plato Holds A Definitely Negative Attitude To Poetry"

Before fix attention on what the Plato's real concept about the poetry is, the thesis investigates the Plato's dialogue on name at first. Because Plato could not ascertain the coherence between name and the idea, he often analyzed the conventional conceptions, and the poetry is one of them. And this seemly proves the view that Plato holds a definitely negative attitude to poetry, but in fact Plato just has doubts on poetry. In the first part of the main body, the thesis clarifies the different names and means of the poetry in ancient Greece, associates them with the Plato's statement about poetry; and from the historic change of the references of poetry and the Greek's view about poetry, the thesis confirms that Plato hold a definitely negative attitude to poetry is impossible. In the second part, the thesis investigates Plato's discussion on the relation between language and reality, because this investigation is very useful for the analysis about representative notion of Plato: poetry is the imitation of the real world. thus deduces the misunderstandings of Plato's attitude to poetry are derived from Plato's notion that language is a tool of cognition. At last, the thesis tries to understand the relation between poetry and nous, and from"Plato's poetry"about divine madness to see the beauty which even could create heaven on the earth.