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    The Poetics of Oedipus and Dana Marschz

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    (Hamlet 2, 00:27:58-28:00), which the community loathes for its mediocrity rather than celebrates for its merits. Comparison of the two works demonstrates an erosion of the tragic genre in modern works. Through Aristotle's three elements of plot in the Poetics; anagnorisis, hamartia, and the scene of suffering; the similarities and differences of the works becomes clear.

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    Poetic Thinking (An Essay Applying Aristotle’s Poetics to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) Aristotle was a philosopher who revolutionized the world of theater with his essay entitled Poetics. Poetics is focused on what Aristotle viewed to be the ultimate form of theater, Tragedy. Aristotle thought that Theater should be a representation of real life. Shakespeare also followed this line of thinking as described in As you Like it, “All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women merely

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    Aristotle presents the argument that tragedies are superior to epics. While tragedies and epics are characterized in similar ways they also have their differences. “A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such

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    known as Poetic Realism. The tenants of this movement were loose at best and mostly consisted as a tendency that a handful of independent filmmakers used in their films. Their influences came primarily from literature of the time and the fantastic styles of Impressionism and Surrealism. From great literature came the scripts and stories for this movements. Great writers like Emil Zola and Leo Tolstoy had their tales appear on the screens of French theaters. From Impressionism, the Poetic Realist

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    Nettles Poetic Analysis

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    ‘Nettles’ Poetic Analysis By Ashraf Mohamed The poem ‘Nettles’ was written by Vernon Scannell who has written this poem to portray a father-son relationship. Vernon Scannell has targeted this poem at parents, as they would be able to relate to the perspective and feelings of the speaker, since a parent is can understand what the poet is talking about. The poem talks about Scannell’s war experiences, which gives it a darker meaning. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, which creates a da-dum

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    defines fine arts and he differs with his teacher Plato in his book of Poetic. His Poetic deals with the principles of Poetic art in general and tragedy in particular on the basis of his analysis and the principles of his Poetic are Probability, Catharsis, Mimesis, Tragic Hero and Hamartia. This essay will explain tragedy looking through Aristotle’s tragic principles in the book Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In Aristotle’s Poetic, he has mentioned the concept of Probability which simply explains

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    defines fine arts and he differs with his teacher Plato in his book of Poetic. His Poetic deals with the principles of Poetic art in general and tragedy in particular on the basis of his analysis and the principles of his Poetic are Probability, Catharsis, Mimesis, Tragic Hero and Hamartia. This essay will explain tragedy looking through Aristotle’s tragic principles in the book Things fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In Aristotle’s Poetic, he has mentioned the concept of Probability which simply explains

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    Augustan Poetic Tradition Essay

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    Augustan Poetic Tradition "I do not in fact see how poetry can survive as a category of human consciousness if it does not put poetic considerations first—expressive considerations, that is, based upon its own genetic laws which spring into operation at the moment of lyric conception." —Seamus Heaney, "The Indefatigable Hoof-taps" (1988) Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate, is one of the most widely read and celebrated poets now writing in English. He is also one of the most

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    3 Am Poetic Devices

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    You did a great job of employing various poetic techniques throughout each of your poems. There are some things I would recommend you take a second look at, but overall I thought each of your pieces was pretty effective. I’m so happy you decided to include “Sugar” in this set of poems. I really liked it when you read it aloud in class, and was pleased to have another chance to experience it. I think the strongest aspect of this piece is your use of onomatopoeia and word choice to create a rhythm

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    A sonnet refers to a poetic form which originated in Italy. There are two kinds: the Petrarchan (Italian) and the Shakespearean (English). Both kinds still consist of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameters – unstressed, then stressed syllables. The Italian form began with Francesco Petrarca. The Shakespearean form began with Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey (Shelley, 2015). The sestet and octave have special functions in the Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet is separated into an eight-line stanza

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