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Having taught Aristotle's "Poetics" for many years at the college and university level, it may help to provide a concise, foundational essay on the structural and dramatic theory within this short book (based on Aristotle's lecture notes). It is important (initially) to understand and grasp the importance of the sacred 1-2-3 structural patterns in sonnets, dramatic poems, dramatic vignettes, epic poetry, stage plays, screenplays, movie soundtracks, songs, melodies, short-short stories, short stories, novellas, and novels. Aristotle used examples of playwrights and poets, who adhered to these precise breaks. It is almost impossible to find an exception to the rule among the literary and cinematic classics throughout the world. It is a mystery just how this little book came to be so influential with professional writers and editors - working in a vast range of foreign languages - ever since its release to the public (dating back to early antiquity).

For the record, the Prologue has three parts; Act I, three scenes; Act II, three scenes; Act III, three scenes; and the Epilogue has three parts. There are three dominate parallelisms for professional writers throughout the world: the 1-2, the 1-2-3, and the 1-2-3 & 4. Of these three, the 1-2-3 parallelism or pattern is dominant. When teaching theory and application (from this text), we read directly from the textbook, compared Aristotle's structural theory to the classics in front of us, and pinpointed the breaks; this was done in order to study the ascendancy of the crescendo through the two minor climaxes, right up to the major climax; thus, creating the "moment in time" for the unravelling of the plot into the denouement, followed by the decrescendo (structured within the Epilogue). Playwrights, novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, script supervisors, song writers, line editors, and dramatists: all labor long and hard on that fine-tuned crescendo (which can 'make or break' an artistic work like a porcelain vase).

Reference the works of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; and the works of Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. Reference the artistic works by poets and writers throughout the Latin-based languages throughout the world (that's 20 languages right there); and that's just for starters. That includes virtually every professional screenplay from 1925 to 1960; their treatments indicated the breaks in the Prologue, Act I, Act II, Act II, and Epilogue with storyboard precision, script delineation, and "blocking" efficiency for the director, the production team, the script supervisor, the producer (who studied the structural breaks in terms of financing the production), so on. "Amelie", "West Side Story", "Wuthering Heights", "Pride and Prejudice", "Romeo and Juliet", "I Will Always Love You", "Un-Break My Heart", "Total Eclipse Of The Heart", and "The Seven Samurai" are superior examples (artistic works) that strictly adhere to the classical unities in Aristotle's "Poetics".