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Halleluja, 18 Kapitel sind genug!!! Ich lese den Rest ein ander Mal, dieser Müll bereitet mir Kopfschmerzen.

Zweites Lesen und dennoch so aufgewühlt wie beim ersten Male. Ich zeige dir gleich, wie der rasende Ajax ausschaut 😡😤🤬!

Uni hat wieder angefangen, ich darf mich wieder mit reclam ausgaben beschäftigen

Chapter 23 considers ugliness in poetry, and chapter 24 ugliness in the visual arts. Lessing seems to look at ugliness in poetry as more of a metaphor, whereas he considers it more of a waste in painting/sculpting (despite the fact that he asserts that accurate representation produces pleasure in the viewer).

Chapters 20 and 21 indulge Lessing to compare various “perfect” and “imperfect” poems from various time periods, especially compared to Homer. Lessing suggests that poetry is better able to capture charm, rather than the specific aspects of beauty; in Lessing’s estimation, descriptions of beauty are less impactful than how a beautiful person might carry themselves (at least as far as poetry is concerned).

In Chapter 17, Lessing defends his prior notions against hypothetical objections, which he continues in Chapter 18. Chapter 18 includes an interesting portion on the difficulty of translating Homer’s use of adjectives into various languages (the Homeric form of Greek allows for multiple adjectives to agglutinate, whereas most modern languages do not). Chapter 19 covers visual perspective in painting and poetry.