Dramatic Poetry Example

The dramatic poetry, It is that poetry that focuses in plays mainly on tragedies or dramas, in which they mix the ironic with the adversities of the drama. In this type of poetry they are performed with dialogues between the characters. The counterpart of this poetry is comedy, although it belongs to this same branch and in which the ending is happy or at least not tragic.

Dramatic poetry has its origin in Greece and the word dramatic derives from the Greek "dramatikos". It was originally spoken in Latin for the Romans to see.

Some recognized ancient authors were:

Plautus

Terence and

Seneca.

Example of dramatic poetry:

"Fragment of the eunuch of Publius Terence Africano"

Act i

Scene i

FEDRO, PARMENON.

FEDRO.- Well, what am I going to do? Will it be okay for me to go now that she
will calls me, or it will be better that I strive not to suffer insults
of whores? I lay down and now he calls me again: Will I return? No, so i
I begged it.

PARMENON.- By faith, by faith that if you could do that, nothing better or

more like a man. But if you undertake it and do not persevere in
it firmly, when not being able to suffer, without calling you anyone
and without making amends, you come to her house showing that you love her and
that you can not bear the absence of it, you are done, there is nothing but
do, you are lost. Make fun of you when you feel surrendered.

FEDRO.- So you, now that it's time, take a good look at it.

PARMENON.- Sir, when the thing itself has no advice, no way
none, no one can rule it or treat it with advice. In love there is
all these faults: grievances, suspicions, enmities, truces,
wars, then peace. Who would pretend to rule such uncertain things
with certain reason, it would be like someone who wants to be crazy with good
brain. And all that you now think between yourself, very angry and
irate: «I... to a woman than to the other... that I... not???
Slowly; The more I want to die! She will see who I am »; all these
words will be paid by her, in good faith, with a false tear that,
by dint of rubbing her eyes, he will force her out of it, and
you will accuse yourself, and you will willingly give of yourself
revenge.

FEDRO.Oh, what an indignity! Now I understand how great she is
her, and I how miserable: and I get angry, and I embrace in her love, and
knowingly, in my judgment, I live, and seeing it myself, I lose myself, and I don't know what
make me.

PARMENON.What are you to do but, since you are a captive, rescue yourself
at least you can; and if you can't narrowly, so
can you, and not grieve?

FEDRO.- Is that your advice?

PARMENON. Yes, if you are sane. And that no more sorrows allied to
those that love itself brings with it, and that those that it brings,
suffer with courage. (Indicating to TAIS, who at this moment leaves his
house.) But hela where the stone comes out of our farm; because it
that we were to thrive, she shaved it.