Prose is written without a regular rhythm, while poetry uses heightened language and verse with rhythm. Both share elements but pull from each other, with prose becoming more poetic and poetry becoming more prosaic. Drama tells stories through acts on stage, divided into tragedies focusing on ruins and loss, and comedies providing laughter and happy endings.
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A BRIEF EXPLANATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF PROSE, POETRY AND DRAMA
Prose is written without a regular rhythm, while poetry uses heightened language and verse with rhythm. Both share elements but pull from each other, with prose becoming more poetic and poetry becoming more prosaic. Drama tells stories through acts on stage, divided into tragedies focusing on ruins and loss, and comedies providing laughter and happy endings.
Prose is written without a regular rhythm, while poetry uses heightened language and verse with rhythm. Both share elements but pull from each other, with prose becoming more poetic and poetry becoming more prosaic. Drama tells stories through acts on stage, divided into tragedies focusing on ruins and loss, and comedies providing laughter and happy endings.
DRAMA PROSE • Expression that does not have a regular rhythmic pattern
• Prose does not have rhythm but its rhythm lacks
any sustained regularity and is not meant to be scanned. POETRY • An expression that is written in verse, often with some form of regular rhythm.
• The basis of poetic expression is a heightened
sense of perception or consciousness. • Both prose and poetry share many elements.
• Prose and Poetry can be seen as two levels or planes,
each going in opposite directions, but partially overlapping at their common ends.
• Prose pulls elements from poetry and poetry pulls
elements from prose until each reaches a finite point at which prose becomes poetry and poetry becomes prose. BE DRUNK
You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it – it’s the
only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be
drunk. And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is Groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking …ask what time it is, and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time to be drunk! So as not to be martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or virtue as you wish. PROSE POETRY Most everyday writing is in prose form. Poetry is typically reserved for expressing something special in an artistic way. The language of prose is typically straightforward The language of poetry tends to be more without much decoration. expressive or decorated, with comparisons, rhyme and rhythm contributing to a different sound and feel. Ideas are contained in sentences that are Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not arranged into paragraphs. be sentences. Lines are arranged in stanzas. There are no line breaks. Sentences to the right Poetry uses line breaks for various reason – to margin. follow a formatted rhythm or to emphasize an idea. Lines can run extremely long or be as short one word or letter. The first word of each sentence is capitalized. Traditionally, the first letter of every line is capitalized, but many modern poets choose not to follow this rule strictly. Prose looks like large blocks of words. The shape of poetry can vary depending on line length and the intent of a poet. DRAMA • A story intended to be acted out on stage.
• Some critics include pantomime, but others specify that drama
requires dialogue.
• Drama also requires a plot, a setting and characters.
• It is divided into two very broad categories: tragedy and comedy,
each with its own characteristics. TRAGEDY • Is one of the oldest forms of drama. The theme of a tragedy usually revolves around the ruins of a dynasty, downfall of man, emotional betrayals, moral setback, personal loss, death, and denials.
• Protagonists often have a tragic flaw – a characteristic that leads
them to their downfall.
• This form of drama rarely has happy endings.
COMEDY • Is lighter in tone than tragedy and provides a happy ending.
• The intention of comic playwrights is to make their
audience laugh. Hence, use highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration and violent horseplay.