Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tragedy is a literary concept.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.