Modern American Dramatization of Poetry: An Analytical Study of Selected Poems by Kenneth Koch
Muslihed-Dien Nassief
Al-Kitab University - College of Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.2.3
Keywords: -Modernism -Lyric -Narrative -Descriptive - Tragic - Comic Poetry
Abstract
The ingenuity is to employ the dramatic elements in dramatizing a poem. The present paper assumes that the correlation between drama and poetry may facilitate this literary touch. Another assumption is that this sensitive relationship between these two genres lies on different circumstantial forces and necessities that are impacted by time and culture. To verify the ingenuity of creating dramatic poetry by transferring the dramatic elements into a poem, and to confirm the assumptions mentioned above, the present paper is devoted to analyze representative poems.
Kenneth Koch (1925 – 2002) was an American author. He was a poet, playwright, and narrator. It may be said that he was the pacemaker of the movement of the modern dramatization of poetry. He was a nonstop writer until his death. He dramatized a great number of famous poems with important contribution in prospering the movement of dramatization of poetry like "Earth" (1959), "Thank You and Other Poems" (1962), "The Art of Love" (1975), "Duplications" (1977), "From the Air" (1979), "Days and
