Explore all things Poetry

A form is the way text is arranged in a poem, short story, novel, etc. There are a wide variety of forms in literature that an author might choose to use. 

A pastiche is a literary creation that imitates a famous work by another author.

Aporia is a figure of speech where a speaker or writer poses a question. This question expresses doubt or confusion.

Pathetic fallacy is used to describe the attribution of human emotions and actions onto non-human things found in nature.

An iamb is a metrical unit. It occurs when two syllables are placed next to one another and the first is unstressed, or short, and the second is stressed, or long.

Acatalectic refers to a line of poetry that has a complete number of syllables in the final foot.

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be” is a quote that features in Act IV, Scene 5 and is spoken by Ophelia. 

Mythopoeia is a genre of modern literature (and film) that refers to the creation of artificial mythology.

Georgian poetry was a poetic movement in England that lasted from 1910 to 1936 during the reign of George V.

A Freudian slip is an error, usually in speech or action, that reveals something about one’s unconscious feelings.