Drama’s Vitallest Expression Is the Common Day
poem 741
Drama’s Vitallest Expression Is the Common Day - meaning Summary
Everyday as True Drama
Dickinson argues that true drama is the ordinary, inner life rather than staged spectacle. Public performances and recorded tragedies fade when audiences disperse, but the private enactment of feeling persists. Characters like Hamlet would remain themselves even without a playwright, and lovers can exist fully in the heart without public record. The poem claims an intimate, unrecorded theatre within people that outlasts formal plays and cannot be owned or closed off, making everyday experience the most vital and enduring form of dramatic expression.
Read Complete AnalysesDrama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation This the best enact When the Audience is scattered And the Boxes shut Hamlet to Himself were Hamlet Had not Shakespeare wrote Though the Romeo left no Record Of his Juliet, It were infinite enacted In the Human Heart Only Theatre recorded Owner cannot shut
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