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Every field of study has its scholars, critics, and commentarians, who employ terminological tools appropriate to their unique purposes. So it is with poetry commentary. more...
Often employing the usual poetic devices, the versanelle is a crafty little form whose elements include brevity, narration, critique of human nature, and a punch line. more...
Two types of poets emerge in every era, traditionalists and faddists. The Modernist fad produced four major poets who straddled the line between tradition and Modernism. more...
In Millay's Petrarchan sonnet, the speaker resolves to tame Chaos by placing him in the cage of a sonnet, where she will be able to make an orderly being of him. more...
According to Bly, American readers "can't tell when a man is counterfeiting and when he isn't." What might this view of one's audience imply for one's artistic integrity? more...
There should be a Hippocratic Oath for poets. If poets were held to anything near the standard of physicians, there would be far less doggerel in the world. more...
Lyric poetry is the most common form of poetry; it does not tell a story as the epic and narrative forms do; the lyric poem has grown into many forms since ancient times. more...
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By: Catherine Owen
Poetry is a highly musical art. Using forms that emphasize the oral and aural history of the genre can increase the power of poems. more...
Nature Poetry Versus Environmental Poetry
By: Catherine Owen
Modern nature poetry has been written since the age of Romanticism. However, given the 21st century's environmental crises, a poetry that speaks to ecology is emerging. more...
By: Catherine Owen
Poetry can be enjoyable to write. These fun forms are suitable for public occasions, greeting cards or commemorative epitaphs. more...
By: Catherine Owen
The villanelle is an enjoyable and beautiful form to write if you like repetitions of lines and an elegiac tone. more...
By: Catherine Owen
For a poet, writing a sestina can be an important challenge in developing discipline or in creating a poem that haunts through its patterned repetitions. more...
By: Catherine Owen
The ghazal is an exciting form that emerged in Persia and is still intriguing to today's post-modern sensibilities and rhythms. more...
By: Catherine Owen
The sonnet is one of the most compelling traditional poetic forms with its compression of an argument or dilemma and its sonorous rhyme scheme. more...
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