POETICA B Arabian horse fine blood, son of Besson Carol and Palitrina, grandson of Parys el Jamaal and Classic Kristall and of Menes and Palitra. 2 . Poetics is a treatise written by Aristotle, whose first volume, of 2, deals with tragedy and epic. The second volume, which I presume is poetics B, would be one about comedy and yambica poetry, which was supposedly lost during the Middle Ages.