Introduction
This work is the outcome of a long and steady reflection on a poetic text that is the expression of one of the highest forms of verbal art: tragedy.
This study reflects a devotion for poetry and versification and how this element is connected to the tragic vision.
This study includes a description of the plot and the verbal material of Shakespeare’s work ‘Othello’. It is the interpretation of the climax taking into account those two levels of an artistic text: Bakhtin’s concepts of Architectural and Compositional forms.
Ideology and perspective from which meaning is created or architectural form deals with the soul of the tragedy namely, the story that unfolds in the play. The story depicts the troubled part of the hero’s life which precedes and leads up to his death, a tale of suffering and calamity leading to death. The calamities proceed from Othello’s actions. The combination of incidents is the key factor to create the true effect of a tragedy intensified by elements of the compositional form such as versification, among other elements. It embraces the features of the verbal material demanded in the past by Shakespeare’s laws, customs that were traditional and imposed on the poet in the past, in other words, poetic rules in all aspects. Shakespeare expresses himself expanding the bonds of the conventional forms. He shapes the structure of the language and verse according to his musical intuition using a trochaic system to construct his versification art. Furthermore, his rhythm and meter fused with phonal qualities of consonants and vowels magnifies the tragic vision creating a unique organism of aesthetic beauty only achieved when the reader perceives this imaginary and dreamy universe.
This study identifies and relates the metrical patterns, phonal qualities, within the poetic resources of the compositional form, and the tragic vision-the architectural form- in such a way that it empowers the aesthetic experience.