Poetry

===Dramatic poetry===
[[File:Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Goethe]]]]
{{Main|Verse drama and dramatic verse|Theatre of ancient Greece|Sanskrit drama|Chinese Opera|Noh}}
Dramatic poetry is [[drama]] written in [[Verse (poetry)|verse]] to be spoken or sung, and appears in varying, sometimes related forms in many cultures. [[Greek tragedy]] in verse dates to the 6th century B.C., and may have been an influence on the development of Sanskrit drama,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keith |first=Arthur Berriedale |title=Sanskrit Drama in its origin, development, theory and practice |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |year=1992 |isbn=978-81-208-0977-2 |pages=57–58}}</ref> just as Indian drama in turn appears to have influenced the development of the ''[[bianwen]]'' verse dramas in China, forerunners of [[Chinese Opera]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dolby |first=William |url=https://archive.org/details/chinesetheater00coli |title=Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-8248-1220-1 |editor-last=Mackerras |editor-first=Colin |page=[https://archive.org/details/chinesetheater00coli/page/17 17] |chapter=Early Chinese Plays and Theatre |url-access=registration}}</ref> [[East Asia]]n verse dramas also include Japanese [[Noh]]. Examples of dramatic poetry in [[Persian literature]] include [[Nizami Ganjavi|Nizami]]'s two famous dramatic works, ''[[Layla and Majnun]]'' and ''[[Khosrow and Shirin]]'', [[Ferdowsi]]'s tragedies such as ''[[Sohrab|Rostam and Sohrab]]'', [[Rumi]]'s ''[[Masnavi]]'', [[Asad Gorgani|Gorgani]]'s tragedy of ''[[Vis and Ramin]]'', and [[Vahshi Bafqi|Vahshi]]'s tragedy of ''[[Farhad]]''. American poets of 20th century revive dramatic poetry, including [[Ezra Pound]] in "''Sestina: Altaforte,''"<ref>{{Cite book|last=Giordano|first=Mathew|title=Dramatic Poetics and American Poetic Culture, 1865–1904, Doctoral Dissertation|publisher=Ohio State|year=2004|location=Columbus, Ohio|quote=Dramatic poetry: Pound’s 'Sestina: Altaforte' or Eliot’s 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Proufrock'.}}</ref> [[T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot]] with "[[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]]".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Eliot|first=T. S.|date=1951|title=Poetry and Drama|url=https://tseliot.com/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=tseliot.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock {{!}} Modern American Poetry|url=https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poem/love-song-j-alfred-prufrock|access-date=2020-10-09|website=www.modernamericanpoetry.org}}</ref>