![]() A good bit of the work is devoted to breaking down these elements. plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song,) and that they are of importance in more or less that order. Second, there is the idea that there are six crucial elements of a tragedy (i.e. Aristotle believed there was in fact something, and it was catharsis, the purging of emotions through vicarious living. That is, there was a risk that young and impressionable minds would take away the wrong lessons, and there wasn’t much to counterbalance that risk. For his teacher, Plato, the stories conveyed via poetry were all risk and no reward. First, there is the idea that stories provide catharsis. But the work is probably most famous for two ideas. This short book is organized to dissect tragedy along many lines, laying out the four kinds of tragedy (complex, pathetic, ethical, and simple,) the segments of a tragedy (prologue, episode, exode, choric song, parode, and stasimon,) etc. ![]() Plato,) it is surprisingly readable and much of the information presented has aged well. Considering the age of this book and that it came from the student of one who was not a fan of poetics at all (i.e. ![]() “Poetics” is the surviving volume of Aristotle’s guide to literary criticism. ![]()
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