ABSTRACT
Theory of knowledge, based upon the scientifically known facts of sense perception. In poetry there is fresh interplay of meanings fused into single complex meaning. The meaning of poetry is not discovered by thinking independently of life outside poetry but by living the life of poetry itself with its sounding words, its images, its concepts, its patterns, its rhythms, pauses, and resurgences. Poetic embodiment is not simply the arrangement of materials already given: it is genuine discovery of meaning which has no existence, or at any rate no viable existence, until the poem has been made. The work was made by the living artist to discover aesthetic meaning, and greater knowledge of the artist is all to the good. In aesthetic experience the total meaning of the poem is apprehended in the pattern of the sounding words. The artist is a conscious being; so the process is not purely unconscious, it is related to his conscious states.
