Aesthetic Mixtures in Poetry, Language, Art, Animal Bodies and Behavior

Mixtures of simple opposite qualities in poetry are similar in content and structure to those found in other aesthetic areas, as illustrated by lists of poems from writers on Medium.

Thermoaesthetics

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The (Little) Tower of Babel.” Photo from WikiArt. Public domain.

“I have seen a medicine
That’s able to…

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Thermoaesthetics

A concept of aesthetic complexity based on universal animal preferences for mixtures of simple, more and less exciting physical and psychological opposites.