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The Heresy of Paraphrase” is the name of the paradox where it is impossible to paraphrase a poem because paraphrasing a poem removes its form, which is an integral part of its meaning.
Meaning in poetry is irreducible, because “a true poem is…an experience rather than any mere statement about experience or any mere abstraction from experience.”
Paraphrasing affects the meaning too much for it to be an accurate summary of its meaning. The meaning of the poem is embodied in its sensual aspects of the arrangement, sound, and rhythm of the words, which are not translateable.
Ernie Lepore concluded that some aspects of poetry, like its form and sound, are not possible to paraphrase. rel:Dubstep Conveyed Conversation
A paraphrase cannot replicate the same beauty as the poem it is based on.
Thought
Though, I can see a paraphrase (edit) revealing something, or becoming different than the object paraphrased, that has equal merit. This isn’t really what is being stated here.
we must draw a sharp distinction between the attractiveness of any particular item taken as the “beauty” of the poem considered as a whole. The later is the effect of the total pattern, and of a kind of pattern which we can incorporate within itself items intrinsically beautiful or ugly, attractive or repulsive. Unless one asserts the primacy of the pattern, a poem merely becomes a bouquet of intrinsically beautiful items.