CONCISENESS

the literary arena of Art has been around since the beginning of language... as such, it is the most developed, conceptually... in this development of presenting a person's view of the world, including the sensory experience of being in the world - what of it that was known - to others, and the necessity of finding ways to remember these views - especially at a time when the written word had not yet been devised - the results became poetry... poetry's aim was not to just present events [tho that may very well have been its initial usage, or coincided initially], but - as indicated - to present EXPERIENCES...indeed, this became its prime purpose...

but you can only hold so much in your mind at any one time... consequently, forms had to be devised to encapsule as much in as minimal space as possible, yet be retainable as maximally as possible... poetry, therefore, says MORE and says it MORE INTENSELY than does ordinary language... this is so even when the spoken language became more permanent with the written language...

as a means of finding ways to make a better rendering, I have found it very instructive to take a look at the various forms which have been utilized in poetry, and seeing where these may, if possible, be adapted to the painter's end... I say this because I maintain that the fundamental principles alluded to in Rand's essays on Art hold true in ALL the arenas of Art...