Abstract

For dilthey, poetry brings human life to a determinate focus through a present image. however, his view of the nature of the nexus being articulated undergoes significant changes. dilthey initially conceived of the life-nexus as the psychological nexus of the individual. so, poetic expression articulates the diverse strands of the poet's psychic life. in dilthey's later view, the life-nexus is a sociohistorical nexus which encompasses the life of the individual. thus, poetry reflects the ways in which an individual is a crossing-point of concrete sociohistorical relations