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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...
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...
