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I already talk with Anatoley about myth and fairy tailes. Kant and after him Cassirer thought that myth is an application of pure forms of human conciousness on nature. Myth cannot be understood as a stricte reflection of objective natural phenomena and it cannot be study with formal logic. Human mind has a priori pure forms of perception and understanding and these forms it applies on Nature, thus we got myth and ritual. Study of structural organization of myth, in this sense, can let us to penetrate into the structural organization of human mind and systematically study its pure forms, that are the foundation of its organization.
In some sense, the same is with poetry. The structural organization of poetry, you have discovered is a reflection of organization of our mind and poetry just make them "visible, tungable". So it is not an invention, in stricte meaning, but application of fundamental patterns of human mind organization on description of something.
What do you think about this?
I bag you pardon for my childish Eglish.
Yours, Boris.