But What if I, when Speaking in my Own Voice, Make a False Representation of Myself? Elementary, My Dear Plato
It seems that Plato means that if I speak
Or write in poetry, but in my own
Persona and my voice, that bodes not weak
And dodgy like mimesis. In this clone
Of me there is no imitation of
Some other person. That is Plato’s thought.
This “Phillip” voice is truer and above
The mimicry he hates, the fake so fraught
With undermining danger. Homer chants
As Homer sometimes in the Iliad,
But when a king speaks there, then Plato rants
Against this falseness. It is bad, bad, bad.
..It’s pitiful to think a man like him
….Could be so childish. He seems really dim.