Brod published five volumes of poetry in addition to his narrative works. The poems deal with his major themes such as love, the search for identity, and Judaism, or correspond with the motifs of Expressionism and New Objectivity. Others engage in a dialogue with his Prague friends Franz Werfel and Franz Kafka. An example of Brod's early plays, which testify to sensuous passion, loneliness, longing, and love's distress, is "The Height of Emotion" (1910). In his later works, he plays with patterns from the trivial novel, folk tales, and boulevard theater. Accordingly entertaining is the play "Lord Byron is Out of Fashion" from 1929. The short piece "The Redeemer" serves as a transition between the erotic poems and the dramas.