Abstract: Aristotle established the main paradigm of the western poetical hermeneutics. It can be represented by the establishment of the object of poetical explanation, the revealment of the imitated essence of literary creation, the relation and the differentiation of the literary styles, the illustration of the poetical function and tragic sensation and the core function of the literary language. So the later poetical explanations are mainly developed  on the basis of ideology of Aristotle.

Key words: Aristotle, poetics, hermeneutics