Post #2: Plato

Plato, a famous rhetorician himself, claims poetry to be a type of rhetoric. Plato states that Ion, a type of rhapsode common to Homer, performs the great task of properly dramatizing works such as they Odyssey and the Illiad. However, Socrates' revealing of Ion and it's questionable stance on thesis statements has one wondering whether or not it is really a form of rhetoric at all. Socrates had unveiled that Ion commits to many a thesis that do not in fact work well together. The problem therein lies with the fact that the thesis statement is what working rhetoric is built around.