Compare a contrast between tragedy and epic
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In his most famous study of Greek dramatic art 'poetics', Aristotle deals with the scope of various material forms that involves one way or another his conception of the representation of life. Concerning the means by which life can be imitated realistically, he discusses extensively the different aspects of poetry. Tragedy and epic are two distinct forms of poetry, according to Aristotle. One difference between the two forms has in the manner of imitation. To the modern reader the work is of much importance as it provides some fundamental rules of observations for the discussion of tragedy. For the neo-classiest, the work is a touchstone of thought on the unities of time, place and action as well as the Greek concepts of catharsis, peripetia, hamartia and hubris.
In chapter VI Aristotle embarks on the most important subject of the 'poetics'. Before going into the detailed discussion of tragedy he gives us an almost complete definition of tragedy " tragedy is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude, in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the playby means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotion".
On the other hand epic is a poetic imitation in the form of narrative, which is dramatically constructed like that of tragedy. It employees a single meter and has many points of similarity with tragedy...