ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In Chapter 26, Aristotle addresses the question of which is the higher form, tragedy or epic poetry. The argument in favor of epic poetry is based on the principle that the higher art form is less vulgar and addressed toward a refined audience.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle divides the art of poetry into verse drama (to include comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play), lyric poetry, and epic.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle divides tragedy into six different parts, ranking them in order from most important to least important as follows: (1) mythos, or plot, (2) character, (3) thought, (4) diction, (5) melody, and (6) spectacle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Excerpts from Aristotle’s Poetics Ch. 6 A tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious and has a wholeness in its extent, in language that is pleasing (though in distinct ways in its different parts), enacted rather than narrated, culminating, by means of pity and fear, in the cleansing of these passions …