You are really out on a limb - if you're going to defend poetry--as Richards kept doing-- as "pseudo-statement," but of course pseudo-statement" is just another expression for what he calls here "fiction."

你会陷入孤立无援的境地,如果你像，Richards一样-,说诗歌是“伪陈述“,当然，这里“伪陈述“只是,“虚构“的另一种说法“

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