Kedar N. Sharma
Kedar N. Sharma is an experienced literary expert and analyst with a postgraduate degree in English Literature. With many years of experience, he specializes in poetry and literary analysis. His strong knowledge of literary terms and critical theory adds depth and value to his contributions to PoemSense.
Blank Verse | Definition
September 25, 2026
Blank verse refers to the poetic lines that use iambic pentameter without rhyming. Most critics agree that blank verse, as it is commonly defined, first appeared in English when the Earl of Surrey used it...
Pun | Definition
September 25, 2026
The pun is a device of word game in which a word with two meanings is playfully used in a context. The pun usually gives rise to ironic or humorous gap between the two meanings...
Iambic Pentameter | Definition
September 25, 2026
Iambic pentameter means ‘five iambic feet in a line’. ‘Iambic’ means a unit of rhythm with two syllables where the first is not stressed (U) and the second is stressed (S). ‘Penta’ means five. The...
Dramatic Monologue | Definition
September 25, 2026
A dramatic monologue is a type of poem in which the speaker is directly addressing and talking to some other person. The speaker in such poems usually speaks alone, in a one way conversation, and...
Graveyard School of Poetry | Definition
September 25, 2026
A group of eighteenth-century English poets who, unlike their “rational” neoclassical contemporaries, emphasized subjectivity, mystery, and melancholy in their poems along with the subjects of death, immortality, mortality and gloom which were often actually set...
Classical Poetry | Definition
September 25, 2026
The term classic has an array of meaning. It may be applied to works from the ancient Graeco-Roman tradition or those written in imitation of it. Classical has also had a number of meanings over...
Quatrain | Definition
September 25, 2026
Quatrain refers to a stanza in a poem containing four lines. The term quatrain is also used to refer to a four-line poem. There is no necessity of any rhyme scheme of quatrain but the...
Negative Capability | Definition
September 25, 2026
The phrase ‘Negative Capability’ was used by the English poet John Keats to describe the capacity to be ‘in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’. Keats believed that only few...
Metaphysical Poetry | Definition
September 25, 2026
Though the name itself is a misnomer, but by the term “metaphysical poetry” we do not only understand the poetry written by John Donne and a few other followers, including George Herbert, John Cleveland, Richard...
Tragic Flaw | Definition
September 25, 2026
A character’s trait in a tragic hero or heroine that brings about his or her downfall in a drama or play is known to be tragic flaw. Traits like arrogance or hubris (excessive pride) are...
