Literary Crit

employ unconventional metaphors and similes, such as comparing the sound of traffic to the texture of silk.

When separated from practical, prosaic language, poetry — literature — as a medium works according to its own laws. Accordingly, literature does not in the first place have to represent or mean anything, although reference and signification are inescapable: it has to be .

s stressed, the Kantian aesthetic experience entails a harmonic interplay between the imagination and our understanding. In this process, the imagination generates all kinds of associations invoked by the feelings an object, the literary work in this case, inspires in us.