Sublime

10Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty one on the earth.

He waxes desperate with imagination.

Tragedy, like all poetry, is an imitation. Specifically, it is an imitation of a certain kind of action. So one constituent part of tragedy is plot, the ordered sequence of events which make up the action being imitated. An action is performed by agents, and agents necessarily have moral and intellectual characteristics, expressed in what they do a

God consoles Himself with the thought that all creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

To sleep all night but ill becomes a chief, Charg'd with the public weal, and cares of state.

So, for example, Oedipus’ discovery of the terrible truth is the paradoxical but necessary consequence of the arrival of a messenger who aims to bring good news and does everything he can to put an end to Oedipus’ worries; here reversal and recognition reinforce each other (52a32f.).