College of Education for Women, University of Tikrit
Abstract
The dramatic structure in poetry means the employment of as much as possible of the elements of drama such as time, place, action, characters, conflict and the actual use of dramatic verbs and poetic images. Thoug dramatic elements can be generally found in any poetic text, what is meant by the dramatic structure here is the conscious and intentional existence, i.e. the poet intentionally uses the dramatic values and makes them evidently functional to develope his poem's structure and deepen its poetic expression. These dramatic elements may appear in the poetic work without affecting the form of the poetic genre or changing it into a play, for instance. This means that a poem remains a poem whatever dramatic elements were employed in it. Hakim Al-Dawudi's poetry i rich with the elements of the dramatic structure which deepens movement, action, dramatic development and the linguistic and imagist conflict. In this paper some of his poems of dramatic nature are selected for analysis from hi two collections The Time of Love and A Time as Stranger.
