Poetics

Aristotle’s Poetics is a brilliant book on the mechanics of poetry, tragedy, and epics. He details the specific characteristics that poetry, tragedy and epic needs to have in order to make it such. The poem Beowulf is a wonderful example of a brilliant piece of poetry, originating from England, tells of the great warrior Beowulf and his battles with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and finally his last battle with the dragon that terrorizes his city and leads to his death. Considering Beowulf’s death while

reversal and suffering are two critical components in the nature of tragedy (Poetics 30). Reversal being the change in direction of events from good fortune at Heorot to bad fortune; although this should be expected as only good fortune in a poem, or any written work for that matter, would make for a monotonous story. Suffering is another part that makes a poem a tragedy. It involves the pain or destruction of something (Poetics 30). Suffering will also cause the reader to experience mimesis as it involves

Aristotle’s Poetics is one of the most well-known pieces of literature describing and defining a tragedy and a tragic hero. He defines a tragedy as a dramatic piece of work that evokes the feelings of pity and fear within humans. Aristotle also states the tragic hero traits such as hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorsis, and catharsis, which all lead to the downfall of the character at the end of the story. In the 1500s, William Shakespeare wrote a plethora of different plays, both comedy and tragedy,

purposes. Although Noyes’ poem demonstrates that eternal love will triumph over betrayal, and Longfellow’s poem reveals the tragic outcome of a sea captain’s pride, both poems share specific literary and poetic elements. In Longfellow’s poem “The Wreck of the Hesperus”, the poem is told as a story in poetic form, known as a narrative poem.

can be classified as a tragic hero, as defined by Aristotle in his work, Poetics. In Aristotle's Poetics, a tragic hero was defined as one who falls from grace into a state of extreme despair. Willy, as we are introduced to him, becomes increasingly miserable as he progresses from a dedicated, loving father, though not without flaws, into a suicidal, delusional man. The definition of a tragic hero, as stated in "Poetics," also describes a person who is influential and is of significance to others

while in worse moments his utterance hardly make sense. Both are passive reactions to his misfortune, not active struggle for re-establishing his dignity. Arthur Miller's theory fails to account for the tragicness of King Lear, but Aristotle's Poetics provides us with a much more satisfying justification of the play being a tragedy. In the following section, I will try to demonstrate that Lear has the essence of what makes a tragedy, according to the Greek philosopher, tragedy. According to

Greek philosopher who is famous around the world for his plays. The specialty enclosed in Aristotle’s plays is that it determines the statuses of the characters created by setting rules on what each character should portray, such as tragic hero. Poetics discusses Aristotle’s definition of tragedy and lists the traits required for a character to be considered a tragic hero. William Shakespeare also diversifies his characters to have various roles for his characters similar to Aristotle’s character

Mimesis, Catharsis, and Pleasure: An Investigation into Aristotle’s Tragic Pleasure Bradley Elicker Temple University Abstract: Aristotle writes the Poetics as an investigation into representational art and, more specifically, as an investigation into the art form of tragedy. While Aristotle goes into great detail regarding the technical aspects of creating and appreciating a work of tragedy, he is somewhat lacking in his descriptions of how tragedy is enjoyed by an audience. Aristotle speaks

The Insanity Lives On (An application of Aristotelian Poetics to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman) A play turned film that consistently grasps the hearts of Americans and continually causes them to question the origins of a dysfunctional family as well as the importance of a true family unit is a prime example of a modern day Aristotelian Poetic model. In the year 1949, American playwright Arthur Miller published one of his greatest works that still touches Americans today. Death of a Salesman

adults seem to frequently listen to music throughout the day. If it is not in the car while driving, it is while walking to class or just simply while doing homework. However, how many adolescents really pay attention to the meaning of the song or the poetic devices that are used throughout the song? Drake’s song featuring Rhianna, Too Good, implies a message of love and explains how he tries his hardest to talk to Rhianna but she has seemed to have discovered herself without discovering their relationship;