Zita rokuti "poetics" rinobva muchiGiriki ποιητικός poietikos "zvine chokuita nenhetembo", chaizvoizvo "kusika, kubudirira", kubva ποιητός poietos "yakaitwa," shoko rechiito che ποιεῖν poiein "kuita". "Mudzidzi T. V. F. Brogan anozivisa mafambiro makuru matatu munhetembo dzekuMadokero mumakore 3,000 apfuura, kutanga ne formalist, objectivist Aristotelian tsika (ona Poetics).
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