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In this , the only true and intelligible sense , it will be seen that poetics , the test or analysis of _ Poetry _ , ( _ not _ opinion , ) is only properly employed upon productions which have their basis in poetry itself , and although the subscriber to poetics journals and poetics lists ( whose duties and objects are multiform ) may turn aside , at pleasure , from the _ mode _ or vehicle of opinion to discussion of the opinion conveyed - - it is still clear that such discussants are " _ critical _ " only in so much as they deviate from the true province not at all . As Smith says in a piece written for a collection of recent poetics , " we do not need , but rather already have , a poetics that is a constellatory & innate reflection on the intervention , the LIFE , we embody . The phrase " a poetics of intervening absence " seems an apt description of Howe 's own project : her writing embodies absence in its elliptical and disjunctive character , and in its dramatic use of space on the page . " McCaffery himself points to the Russian Formalists , to Wittgenstein , Barthes , Lacan , and Derrida as the sources for his theory , and indeed language poetics , in this first stage , owes its greatest debt to French poststructuralism , although Charles Bernstein , for one , was much closer to Wittgenstein , whom he had studied with Stanley Cavell at Harvard , than to Derrida , whose analysis of signification he distrusted , even as Silliman and Andrews were drawn to a more politicized Frankfurt School poetics . The Greek philosopher Aristotle discussed comedy in the second book of Poetics , which has been lost . In what follows , I want to look at signatures in two poetic texts , both of them written by what are nominally Language poets and both charting , in very specific ways , the geography of childhood . " Shorn of the brooding lyricism and poetic descriptive passages that have become McCarthy 's signature style , No Country for Old Men is a variant of one of the oldest of formula suspense tales : a man discovers a treasure and unwisely decides to take it and run , bringing upon himself and others a string of calamities ending with his death . As far as I know he was n't into drugs the way Coleridge and others were ( I 'm not saying he never tried anything , but it does n't seem to have been a big part of his lifestyle or an " aid " in his poetic production ) . And the text deemed worthy of illustration is not necessarily poetic : the diary of Sophie Podolski or children 's book of Nicolas Ancion serve here as examples of the Belgian indifference to traditional categories . Based on their assumptions that classical Greek poetic composition was a matter of arranging set combinations of phrases , scholars Parry and Lord set out for the Balkans in the 1930s to discover if contemporary oral traditions likewise used ready-made fragments as they ...