ABSTRACT
The only way to understand music is to listen to it, insists B. H. Haggin, well-known music critic. Hamlet is an example of the employment, on a very large scale, of an artistic medium. The nature of this employment may be seen in one of the Sonnets. The articulateness in words in metrical patterns is common enough: it produces huge quantities of worthless poetry by children, adolescents, adults. A painter, too, may be aware only of choosing a bit of paint and placing it on the canvas in relation to a number of other bits; but the choice, the placing, the relation, involve exercise of judgment - which is to say that they involve the whole man; the sum at that moment of his experience, thought, emotion, insight. But to know even relevant biographical and historical details about a work of art would not make the relations of elements in the work of art clearer and more significant.
