The Poetic Sense: The Aesthetic Enjoyment which Carries the Lived Fullness of Conscious Acts

Abstract

It is now time to introduce the second primogenital sense virtually present in the Human Condition and actualized in the meaning-bestowing role of the human person: the poetic sense. It is best to bring it out as it emerges in the investigation of the literary work of art, where it crystallizes in its purest form. What is literary work? In contrast to the ontological stress upon the nature of the literary work itself, let us say that the literary work is a specific type of result obtained by the creative activity of the human being. It is “literary,” first, insofar as it is “embodied” in the media of written (and spoken) language; it is a “literary creative result” insofar as this embodiment concerns the poetic sense brought to fruition through aesthetic enjoyment. In the exfoliation of this definition we must concern ourselves first with aesthetic enjoyment.