Introduction to Drama and Poetry Assignment: Analysis of Texts

This assignment delves into the analysis of drama and poetry, focusing on two specific texts: "The Ghost Bride" and "The Dead Crow." The assignment begins with an introduction to drama, analyzing the plot of "The Ghost Bride" using Freytag's pyramid and examining how characters contribute to the plot's understanding. The analysis of the plot includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and catastrophe. The character analysis explores how the characters, including Li Lan, Tian Bai, and others, contribute to the narrative's development. The second part of the assignment shifts to poetry, analyzing "The Dead Crow." This section identifies the poem's themes, such as environmental pollution, nature preservation, and the dangers of modernization, and explains how these themes are derived from the poem's content. The assignment then explores the poem's use of words, images, tone, figurative speech, rhyme, and rhythm, providing textual evidence to support each analysis. The overall aim is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the elements and techniques of drama and poetry, as well as to illustrate how to analyze literary texts.

INTRODUCTION TO
DRAMA AND POETRY

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Task 1: Introduction to Drama.........................................................................................................1
1 Selected drama is “The Ghost Bride.........................................................................................1
(a) Analyse the plot of the drama text using either Aristotle’s or Freytag’s pyramid method....2
(b) Analyse the characters in the drama and explain evidence how the characters contribute to
the understanding of the plot.......................................................................................................3
Task 2: Introduction to Poetry.........................................................................................................4
2. The selected poem is “The Dead Crow”..................................................................................4
(a) The theme of the poem and how arrive at the theme.............................................................4
(b) Explain the following:............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Drama and poetry are both consider as literature. Drama refers to a play executed on the
stage, television and radio. It is composed in verses or prose to tell a story engaging emotions or
to portray a character. Drama is also acknowledged to be more famous during the golden age. It
is a literacy work which is written generally to entertain individual, especially king’s courtyard
centuries before. In current era, well acknowledged dramas play on theatres throughout the
globe. Whereas poetry is an ancient literary art (Vietto, 2018). There are diverse poets who have
contributed so much to enrich the literature which is being studied now these days. Like any
other form of literature, it has several attributes that describe poetry. Drama differs considerably
from poetry or narrative as it is basically written to be executed wherewith characterizes the view
of scene, personages doings and demenaunors, the noise that are going to be heard etc. This
assessment covers information of important topics like Drama and Poetry. In term of, discussing
the information of drama section, the chosen drama is The Ghost Bride. Along with this to define
the information of poetry section, the poetry that will consider is .
MAIN BODY
Task 1: Introduction to Drama
1 Selected drama is “The Ghost Bride
The general term Drama is understood to be a composition literary that is written to be
represented in theatres. For that reason authors include its solid rules without their application
drama cannot be flourishing in phase. At drama devoid the affirmation and explanation while all
the text surrender via dialogue and monologue. Every drama flow by a conflict that make a
particular language, more dynamic, more emotional and not usual. In modern era, drama arrived
to bring in scene the man, life and random language. Drama considers different characteristics
such as tragedy and comedy etc. There are several centuries that dominate the writing of drama
that is written in prose, which does not have solid plans anymore such as classis creations that
has a much wider range of the thematic and has an unlimited option to select characters (Yücesan
and Şendurur, 2018). After the technology revolution, from drama some new forms of art
appeared that are much more popular in all over the world like radiodrama, television drama and
others. For the completion of this section The Gost Bride is the drama which is written by
Yangsze Choos who is a Malaysian author.
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(a) Analyse the plot of the drama text using either Aristotle’s or Freytag’s pyramid method
The plot of selected is based on or around the life of a young woman who gets a proposal
to become the ghost bride of the son of a very wealthy family, Even if, she is very reluctant
about it initially, this proposal establishes off a series of unfortunate happenings that eventually
force her to comply with it (Rahimipour, 2020). But the more she thrusts deep into the affairs of
the royal family, the more she identifies herself into a supernatural world where only she can
bring order. This drama is filling with climax, story and many more things.
In context of this particular drama, Freytag’s pyramid model can be consider as it is one of
the oldest dramatic structures and it developed by Gustav Freytag. a German playwright and
novelist. There are five elements in the plot diagram and they are as:
Introduction- This phase considers both the exposition and exciting force. Exposition is a
scene within no main modifications arises and the point is to introduce the key characters, time
period and tone etc. Freytag views the existing force as this the complication and other structures
call it the inciting incident. Within the particular drama, the introduction step also considers
information about the different character, time period and tone of the drama.
Rising movement- Under this, the major and chief action has been begun, the story makes
in action regarding the climax. Any characters who have not as of yet been informed should be
introduced here. For example, in specific drama there is a scene that a villain with scary looking
henchmen who captures the good guys and tortures them.
Climax- In this framework within the plot diagram climax occurs in the middle of the
story. The climax can be thought of like a reflection point. If things have gone well for the
protagonist, things begin developing. This phase is the point at which the story reflects and
afterward becomes the mirror story. But rather than just concentrates on the fate of the
protagonist, as per Freytag, the climax as the scene within the all energy of the leading role is
exposed, whether for good or ill, pathos or pride. In other words, the energy, values and themes
demonstrated in the first half are repealed and undone in the second half. This climax phase of
the drama is most significance as the action rises to this and action falls away from this (Dahami,
2019). For instance, in one scene of the this particular drama climax is happen related to a
murder related scene, when Er Lang travels to the middle realm to assist Lin, Tian Bai who is
Ching’s brother, tries to look for the individual who murdered his brother, He searches arsenic in
the room of one of his maids and feels that she was accountable for the murder. The maid also
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declares that she killed him as he cruelly annoyed all the servants of the house and did not
behave in respected manner.
Falling action- In this phase, the things constant to either devolve for the protagonist or in
the case of a comedy, develop, leading up to the force of the final expectation which is a moment
before the disaster, when the writer projects the last catastrophe and ready the audience for it. It
is well acknowledged that the catastrophe must not come wholly like a surprise to the reader and
audience (Finnegan, 2018). For example, in “The Ghost Bride” drama, within a scene when Tian
Bai and Lin’s father discuss all about Lin’s unnatural death and the killer’s intentions behind it.
Bai’s fiancé, Isabella, accidently ends up blabbering a very intricate information of the place
where Lon was killed. Isabella undertakes her best to hide the truth but all of it just further
cements Tian Bai;s suspicion. Apart from that she had once cheated on Bai with his brother and
Ching had later utilised this to blackmail her.
Catastrophe or Denouement- Freytag mainly centred on tragedy not comedy and saw the
ending phase of a story as the moment of disaster within the key attribute is finally untied
through their own options, activities and energy. For example, within the one scene of The Ghost
Bride drama, every person who ends up in the Underworld appears to be influenced by a curse.
Even when Lin’s father was in the underworld, his veins were turning black cause of the curse
and Lin was expected to save him before the curse took over his whole body.
(b) Analyse the characters in the drama and explain evidence how the characters contribute to the
understanding of the plot
There are number of characters and all make and effective contribution to the understanding
the plot by playing their role in more beautiful manner. The main character of this entire drama is
a young woman Lin Lan who gets a proposal to become the ghost bride of a reputed family. Li
Lan is a very relatable character. She is no superhero or even a hero in the basic sense But she is
plucky, quick-witted and brave for the sake of others. This character assist the drama to take it
carry forward and well fitted in the each part of plot like introduction to climax to falling action
and catastrophe (Chaudhuri, 2018). Other characters like Tian Bai, Ching and Er Lang as well as
Isabella make a fabulous involvement in make the completion of this dramatic play in more
effective manner. Though, it is balanced out through the lovely execution from the lead and her
chemistry with some other main characters like the aforesaid nanny and a confident wonderful
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guard. The main secrecy is determined rather awkwardly. It is not an investigative thriller to
mystery but its less about that and more about the character arc of Li Lan.
Task 2: Introduction to Poetry
2. The selected poem is “The Dead Crow”
The word poetry states as a unique art of literacy but it does not have a clear definition of
what it is. It is viewed that poetry utilises a fictional plot, a specialised language and it is written
in particular form or style. It is hard to define poetry because it is a bond with ideas, nerved and
blooded with emotions (Caudwell, 2020). There are several attributes of it; the key ones are
Lyrical poetry and Narrative poetry. Lyrical poetry is short, non-narrative poems which consider
subcategories and one of them is the Sonnet, that s written in fourteen lines. The narrative poetry
is a form of poetry that tells stories though it like love stories and tragedies etc. While other style
of poetry are written in four lines, that are acknowledged as stanza. The effective completion of
this task, the chosen poem is The Dead Crow which is written by A.Samad Said who is a
Malaysian poet and well known for his literary works and is a discriminated personality in the
literary world. The respected poet introduces a new form of literary form in his works that
marked exclusivity in his writing and poems.
(a) The theme of the poem and how arrive at the theme
The theme of the specific poem links to the general idea and ideas operating throughout the
poem. Poetry may have one or numerous themes based on the subject of the poem the personal
deals with and the experiences the person endures. There are diverse themes in the poem “The
Dead Crow”. They are as:
 The pollution of the environment
 The need for preservation of nature
 The dangers of modernisation
 Awareness for the need for balanced development
Along with this, the subject of this poem is related to the pollution and issues concerning the
atmosphere. The topic of the poem is the conservation of the atmosphere for future age group.
The environment is everyone’s concern and there is a need for each to guard and protect the
surroundings (Norton and Sliep, 2019). In this poem “The Dead Crow” the persona makes some
observations and expresses poet’s emotions and feelings of what is happening. The theme arrive
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by analysing the surrounding and due to polluted atmosphere which kind of sufferings are faced
by nature’s creatures in term of birds and others.
(b) Explain the following:
Words and images- The poets utilise language to make the presentation of the poem more
interesting. They utilise language to involve the readers’ intelligence and imagination. Poets use
diverse forms to express their thoughts, feelings and knowledge. Within this respective poem, the
poet makes use of two stanzas to define the feeling and share the experience (Abbott, 2020). In
The Dead Crow, the lyricist utilises words, phrases and sayings that are basically utilised. The
poet uses imagery that works on senses. For example, in the respected poem the imagery words
and phrases use are like a dead crow, drain, post office, old man, baby, clinic and earth covered
with grass are some sense of sight. Crowded clinic and rivers run free are sense of hearing where
as a dead crow is a sense of smell. The rhymester utilised words to state that individual are
suffering due to the polluted atmosphere. The individual use word of phrase like “an old man is
gasping for air” and “a Baby barely able to breath”, in the first stanza of the particular poem. to
show the seriousness of the problem of pollution. In primary stanza, the poet uses the word “He”
to denote to someone as a male like young man, a boy and adult or old man. In Stanza two, the
person uses the world “I” and becomes engaged in the poem. Along with this, the individual also
utilises the word “want” to demonstrate that the persona is making demands. The needs are clean
air, leave the forest alone, trees to grow, rivers run free and earth covered with grass. \
Tone and figurative speech- The tone of the poem indicates to the emotions, insights and
experiences of the persona. It also links to the mood of the character such as sad, upset, angry,
and disappointed and many more. These emotions characteristics and perceptions are expressed
either instantly or indirectly. In The Dead Crow, the personality feels annoyed and upset. The
individual feel regretful that the atmosphere is taken for granted. The Persona asks that why
should we suffer like this (Mitchell, 2019). The poet is pessimistic when he says that he wants
the damn fools to leave the forest alone. Individuals are facing as of the polluted atmospheres.
The character demands for clean air, forest to be gone alone, trees to nurture, rivers to stream
freely and the earth to be wrapped with greenery. The persona hopes for a better and cleaner
atmosphere for the individual and upcoming time generations.
Rhyme and rhythm- It refers to the conceptions of rhythm and rhyme which indicates to a
prototype of rhymes which is made by using words that create the same or similar kind of
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sounds. It together denotes to the recurrence of same sounds in poetry, creating a musical, gentle
effect. In the respective poem “The Dead Crow”, there is an effective rhyming and rhythm which
make the reading of the poem interesting.
Apart from all this, form the poem, “The Dead Crow” moral values of it is that it is important
to protect the atmosphere. The individual cannot allow modernisation to rob us of the
surroundings and nature. The people need to preserve nature for the wellness of individuals and
for upcoming time age group and generations (Huot, 2019). Along with this, the poem also learn
about to take care of the environment and carry out developing in a systematic and balanced
form with hurting and destroying animals. Therefore, the individual need to play out section in
the conservation of the atmosphere and in minimising pollution.
CONCLUSION
From the defined information, it has been summarised that drama and poetry are effective
section of literature. Drama is literature that concentrates on dialogue and conflict, written to be
executed on a phase. While poetry is explained as literary work in metrical form, often
employing meter and rhyme as well as descriptive and imaginative language. The define
particular drama and poem is also provide and effective information about the concept of
literature.
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