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.
Protest Poetry | Definition
September 25, 2026
Protest means objection, complaint or revolt. Protest poems or protest literature refers to works that address to real socio-political issues and express objection against them. For instance, the feminist poem “Daddy” is also a poem...
Personification | Definition
September 25, 2026
Personification also known as ‘Prosopopoeia’ is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects. It is the literary method of treating an abstract force or quality as if...
Heroic Couplet | Definition
September 25, 2026
Heroic couplet is a pair of rhymed lines with iambic pentameter. This form of poetry was popularized and highly developed by the neo-classical poets, especially Alexander Pope. Chaucer was the first literary figure to compose...
Theatre of the Absurd | Definition
September 25, 2026
The term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ is applied to a number of dramatic works which share the view that the human condition is essentially absurd by which is meant a lack of meaning in life....
Harlem Renaissance | Definition
September 25, 2026
Harlem Renaissance is a literary movement that emerged exclusively in African American area of Harlem, New York in 1920s. A mass migration had taken place in Harlem from the South after the World War I....
Stream of Consciousness Technique | Definition
September 25, 2026
The stream of consciousness technique is a definite mode of writing novels developed in the early twentieth century. We may define stream of consciousness fiction as a type of fiction in which the basic emphasis...
Kunstlerroman | Definition
September 24, 2026
This is a category of a novel in with ‘novel of the artist’ examines the development of the artist from childhood to the point when the subject realizes his or her artistic potential and mission....
Rhythm | Definition
September 24, 2026
Rhythm is a music effect in the poetry which can’t be apparently seen as meter; rather it can be grasped through the quality of music. Usually rhythm is flourished with the use of alliteration, assonance...
Song | Definition
September 24, 2026
A song is a lyrical poem which is sung with the playing of some musical instrument. It is a very old form of literature which is passed from one generation to the other generation. Also...
Rhetorical Question | Definition
September 24, 2026
A rhetorical question is a sentence in the grammatical form of a question which is not asked to get information or reply but to achieve expressive effect than from a direct saying. In everyday discourse...
