Reference
Rhyme | Definition
September 26, 2026
Rhyme is the repetition of the same unit of sound in a poem, usually at the ends of the lines. Very often people think of poetry as something that rhymes. Poetry with no rhyme, but...
Romantic Poetry | Definition
September 26, 2026
It is generally supposed that the English Romantic Movement began in 1798 with the publication of the “Lyrical Ballads” but it is not a sudden outburst but the result of long and gradual growth and...
Neoclassical Poetry | Definition
September 26, 2026
Neoclassicism as a label is applied to a period of English literature lasting from 1660, the Restoration of Charles II, till about 1800. This period is also designated as the ages of Dryden, Pope and...
Victorian Poetry | Definition
September 26, 2026
The word Victorian suggests a few features of the literature (and poetry) of the nineteenth century. In poetry and literature, it carries the suggestion of pessimistic subject, elegiac tone, lyrical expression, musical poetry, description of...
Modernist Poetry | Definition
September 26, 2026
The word ‘modern’ and even ‘modernism’ are very vague terms whose precise meanings are hard to pin down. In literary criticism, the ‘trend’ called modernism is associated with several features seen in the literature of...
Confessional Poetry | Definition
September 26, 2026
The confessional poetry is something that poets of the fifties like Robert Lowell and John Berryman had developed; but it reached its climax with Anne Sexton. Confessional mode of poetry is also defined as the...
Meter | Definition
September 25, 2026
Meter is the quality of regular and conventional rhythm in poetic lines. Rhythm means any pattern, whether regular or not, and whether following any conventional pattern or not. But meter means standard conventional and regular...
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...
