This article offers an analysis of The Warrior’s Barrow (1850) by Henrik Ibsen, Jolanta by Edward Leszczyński (1904) and The Dance of Death by Wystan Hugh Auden (1933) to find out how dramatic poem is realized in a one-act play. Ibsen’s drama was written that at a time when not only Norwegian theatre was formed, but also Norwegian identity and language. To tell the Viking’s story, Ibsen chose a form that opposed the classic Danish theatre dominant at that time. Accordingly, Ibsen’s play served political and social goals as a separate, special story about the Norwegian soul. In turn, Leszczyński’s work fits in with the modernist search for a new form of drama and theater in the world of cultural and even civilization breakthrough. The author...