Ifhumanistswanttoremainperpetualchildren,thentheirpoetrywill,touseBentham'salliterativepairing,neverbeanybetterthanpushpin,willindeedbetaughtasifitwerepushpin

s Coleridge plainly put it, poetry i!. not rhetoric at all. Poetry. unlike rhetoric, is the expression of the poet's feelings. It is a mimetic art that medi-ates between people and nature. If poetry, like rhetoric, seeks to stimulate the emo-tions, it docs so for quite different reasons-poetry for contemplation, rhetoric for action.