It often appears in classical plays, epic poetry, and stylized ... are arguably most famous examples of heightened language, with their use of iambic pentameter, rich metaphors, and rhetorical ...

but it is not a requirement as the session will include scanning through examples as a group. The session will cover accentual syllabic metre e.g. iambic pentameter only which is the most common metre ...

For example ... When I read these poems, they run through my mind like a piece of music. Wyatt's meter baffled Victorian editors-they tinkered with it until they got it into nice iambic pentameter and ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.

Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with care: For over a century, Christmas poems have captured the magic of the most wonderful time of the year. While many people ...

How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...