As its name indicates, dramatic poetry is based on stories full of life events of the characters, passionate as they are tragic, in dialogues in the form of epic stories in their simplest and most elevated elements, extolling characters with songs in lyrical choruses.
They come from the Greek theater which was done in Greek so that the Romans could see them, from the Latin word "dramaticus" and the Greek word "dramatikos" where the first means action and the other belonging, that is, in its definition is The belonging of the action and although it is related to the aristocracy, it arose from the streets of popular neighborhoods, being a time when lyrical poetry was decadent, for this it is known as the form of human expression, causing endless feelings and illusion to the reader, giving the feeling of reality of the work.
Dramatic poetry reflects in its context the action, the facts, the sublime, the subjective, the ideas, the feelings and the calamities of the main and secondary characters, in many occasions there is only one character in the work, recounting their life misfortunes, being a dilo where the author stands out in his own individuality as a dramatic author, where with his own experiences and those of others reflect an inspiration in the beauty of a real world, adapting it to an unreal one, enlarging the events where he gives it his personal and intimate touch of your own emotions.
One of the features of dramatic poetry, which although based on actions of past events, the adaptation of the current sense is sublime, as is done in time present or as if it were happening at the moment. All theatrical or poetic work needs a plan which takes 3 moments, one of them is the exhibition, which is the presentation of the history and its antecedents that begins the work in action, being clear and natural In its compression, what is called a knot, which is the complicated plot, is the situation of the development of greatest interest in poetry, the outcome which is the unforeseen and unexpected solution, thus ending the knot that is the plot and action or beginning that although the end is logical is traumatic.
All this art performs different acts, blocks and scenes on display that intertwine with each other and shape the complete body of the dramatic work or poetry. Among the ancient and main authors of dramatic poetry are Plautus, Terence and Seneca, and one of the most widely read poems is the one called Robe pan para mis niños, by Fidencio Escamilla Cervantes, which begins with the dramatic exposition of his confession. theft and then explain the reason for it.