Wilde believed that poetry was superior to the graphic arts for what reasons? Consider their requests.STUDENTSSend instant message.Phone number not available. View all available user details.Send internal mail for Webstudy.No external web pages available.In "The Critic as Artist", Oscar Wilde writes that literature is superior to the graphic arts, because unlike paintings of sunsets or portraits or of other related art forms, literature is "soul speaking to soul in those long cadenced verses, not only through form and color... but with intellectual and emotional expression, with high passion and with higher thought , with intuition imaginative and poetic in purpose" (2289). Wilde goes on to say that graphic art isn't all that special. People might try to interpret, for example, the meaning of a sculpture and think it has a deeper meaning than it actually does. Wilde thinks that artists who paint or sculpt simply make their art because it is pleasing to the eye, with colors that complement each other or "simply with certain arrangements of lines and masses" (2290), and that "it is rather the spectator who lends the beautiful thing its multiple meanings" (2290). He says that art is very beautiful, but since it has no real meaning and is simply open to various interpretations by anyone, it is inferior to Literature, which "gives us shows... not only the meaning but also the mystery of Beauty, and... solves once and for all the problem of the unity of art" (2293). Reply forward4/4/2014 11:19:05 RE : LITERATURE VS. THE GRAPHIC ARTSKELLEE MCKINNEYSTUDENTSend an instant message.Phone number not available View all available user details.Send internal mail to External Webstudy.No We...... middle of paper ......argues that lying is a requirement of art, since without it there is nothing but basic realism. The hard test facing the novel in England, Wilde argues, is that writers don't lie enough; they don't have enough imagination in their works: "they find life raw and leave it raw." In this particular essay Wilde makes his seemingly scandalous statement that "life imitates art much more than art imitates life." Although perhaps and obviously exaggerating the fact, Wilde persuasively discusses the many ways in which our perceptions of reality are influenced by the art we have experienced, an idea adapted from the poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and other early English Romantics . But in all of this he believes that poetry can be expressed more easily and much more widely than art itself, art can only be art and be seen as it is but poetry can be expressed in many other ways.