Starting from Lessing's theory of "differentia specifica" between visual arts and verbal arts, this essay attempts to define the aesthetic principle which gives rise to the transpositions of "anomalous syntax" ("hyperbaton", "mixtura verborum", "versus rapportati" etc.). This principle is the category of "Transitorik" (transitivity), which justifies language whether as temporal succession of signs or as spatial arrangement of words. By making use of "transitivity", poets can give to the temporal succession of verbal arts the same simultaneousness as visual arts.
From a categorial viewpoint, the aesthetics of transitivity is similar to the baroque, romantic, decadent ones and, indeed, to that kind of aesthetics which privileges "transgression" over "memory". As such, it belongs to contemporary aesthetic debate which seeks the "truth" of art in the always renewed act of writing/reading.