Mimesis: Life Enlightenment Fermentation Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

mimesis minimal a mere
artistic imitation of life
an artist’s imitation of life?

or nature in techniques
subject matter art literatures
as a reference specified

mimicry nothing more?
usually emphasizing?
smallness humbleness?
unimportance of specific
person subject designated?

Really?
not a critical
a philosophical

term that carries
a wide range of meanings
in context situations?

consider imitatio
representation
mimicry imitation

already deadly
serious applications
are prime on line

receptivity
nonsensuous
similarity

perception
in this connection
wider than

sense-perception

act of resembling
act of expression
presentation of self

simply
a system
of categorized

sensations
to gratuitously
assume

nonsensuous

uncategorized
things-in-themselves
as existing somewhere when

contrary
pure concept
the content

of a surface
as an absolutely
nonsensuous concept

content limitation
may be sensuous
or nonsensuous

help or hinder
conscious
aspiration individual

to attain
enlightenment
fermentation