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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...
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...
