In the study of the nature of art and literature, the discussion of the ‘OBJECT of mimesis’ has always been of particular importance. In fact, Aristotle in Poetics, by distinguishing the OBJECT, the method and the means of imitation, initiates debates that have continued until the contemporary era. In the meantime, the issue of the OBJECT of mimesis as an artistic OBJECT was raised before Aristotle in Plato’s philosophical tradition. Of course, unlike Aristotle, who tries to recognize imitation based on the empirical ideal, Plato, due to his involvement with the transcendental ideal, considers imitation to have no epistemic value. Accordingly, scholars of the Renaissance and later on in the contemporary period, thinkers such as Lukács or Auerbach, have described the OBJECT of mimesis from different perspectives. In sum, these thinkers suggest that when an artist turns to the creation of a work of art, the OBJECT of mimesis may include the ideal, tradition, nature, state of affairs, general principles of human nature, or merely external reality. Therefore, the present study tries to examine these arguments on the OBJECT of mimesis, and explore their theoretical points of strength and/or shortcomings. Finally, the paper suggests the possible world as the OBJECT of mimesis and thus tries to open up a new perspective, which seems to have more analytical power in this regard. Accordingly, it is suggested that phenomena and events in the literary work as a possible world function on the basis of the internal logic particular to the work of art. In this way, even the non-realistic types of representation can be interpreted on the basis of the verisimilitude principle.