What motivates a person to break a law? The driving force behind a great deal of human action is emotion. James took this into account when he wrote habit, and encouraged to use emotions to create action. Poets take this into account, they play with our emotions. They create meaning with emotions.
As those who analyze literature we pick apart author’s intent. We try to see what they are telling us, what they want us to do with the information they give us. This means that we assume that author wants us to do something with what they give us.
In this was poets are creators, makers of action, not imitators as Plato says.
Besides, it’s a little irrelevant, you can’t kick out the people you don’t want. Poets give a way to release emotion; to acknowledge emotion and give it a function. Poets allow us to deal with what we normally wouldn’t be able to. That includes those you don’t want in your society.
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