Truth and Verisimilitude in the Poetics: Paz and Aristotle

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discover the close relation that Paz's opinion keeps with Aristotle's when they talk about the reach of poetry. First, I try to explain the various meanings of the concept "truth” in Aristotle's work in order to understand the precise meaning of what he refers to as poetry. Then, I try to compare both opinions parting from their similar conception of the need of verisimilitude poetry must regard. Although both Aristotle and Paz predicate this necessity in reference to poetry, they have different reasons to do so. I conclude this work explaining those reasons.