Why poetry, literature or art is objected?


Plato's objection to poetry..

Plato has main three objection to poetry:
Poetry is not ethical, philosophical and pragmatic. 


In other words..
- he objected poetry with the point of view of education
- he objected poetry with the point of view of philosophical
- he objected poetry with the point of view of moral

Why Plato objected with these three point of views?
Plato objected that..
- poetry is not ethical because it promotes undesirable passion
- poetry is not philosophical because it does not provide true knowledge and
- poetry is not pragmatic because it is inferior to the practical art and therefore has no educational value.

Plato's objection to Literature..
Plato says that if we want to cultivate our future generations with good habits and no quarreling that we have to remove all mythical stories which are in our great epics. According to him at one side we say that "quarrelling is unholy" and at another side we give examples of great epics where we find fights between Gods. So how can we cultivate good habits in future generation?

Other art forms like image of painting is also not real one. Plato says that an image is mere an imitation of an idea which comes in our mind. And thus the real is "idea" not the "image". And whatever we see in front of our eyes are imitation so it is far from reality.

And about poetry Plato says that poetry appeals to the inferior part of our body that is emotion. Poetry causes needless lamentations and ecstasies towards imaginary sorrow and happiness. So poetry is not good and has no healthy functions.

According to him "drama" is a most dangerous form of literature because in that author is imitating the things that he/she doesn't understand. He says that no words are strong enough to condemn drama. He felt that
"All the world's evils derived from one source: faulty understanding of reality."

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