# What does Butcher's Poetics VI actually say about the 'purgation' of pity and fear, what does it leave unsaid, and what can an outline check responsibly use?

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VI says tragedy works through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of those emotions, and places the strongest emotional elements in the plot (reversal and recognition). It does not say what is purged, how, or in whom, and 'purgation' occurs nowhere else in the pinned Butcher file. An outline check can tag where pity and fear are intended, but the text offers no measure of whether a purgation occurred.

VI says tragedy works through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of those emotions, and places the strongest emotional elements in the plot (reversal and recognition). It does not say what is purged, how, or in whom, and 'purgation' occurs nowhere else in the pinned Butcher file. An outline check can tag where pity and fear are intended, but the text offers no measure of whether a purgation occurred.

Curator qualifications: 'purgation' once in the file and unexplained (curator count 1).

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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974.txt",
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```

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- [sourced_fact] VI says tragedy works through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of those emotions, and places the strongest emotional elements in the plot (reversal and recognition). It does not say what is purged, how, or in whom, and 'purgation' occurs nowhere else in the pinned Butcher file. An outline check can tag where pity and fear are intended, but the text offers no measure of whether a purgation occurred. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974.txt

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