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The author comments on the poetic category in the aesthetic from the reflexion on the female characters that were prey of the powers of seduction: Donna Elvira of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Maria Deaumarchais of Goethe's Clavijo, and John's Cordelia from the Diary of a Seducer. These female figures, whose poetic force is comparable to the one of Antigone, are different because of the power of seduction, for in these stage the pathetic female response does not consist in seeking for the oblivion and the relief of their sorrow, but in the remembrance and the pain of their most precious treasure.

This paper offers a commentary on the aesthetical categories of poetry and music towards seduction, categories that the “aesthete A”, who reflects the poetic personality, exhibits in The Alternative. The author points out the páthos of the poet not only directed to his listeners and readers, but to himself too, revealing, then, the true existential tragedy that the poet has to face, a tragedy he is so thoroughly aware of that only his peers can understand, his co-burried brothers: a society of dead poets. With this aesthetic figure, sorrow is dissociated from anguish in order to indicate that the poet only has a past while living in sorrow, whereas anguish always point to future and offers an illusion. But this can only be understood by a poet, one who suffers the same, and this is why when the poet is asked to sing again his so seducing poems, he is really asked to experience new suffering in his soul.