The Academy of American Poets created the National Poetry Month in the United States to encourage people to appreciate poetry and to become more aware of the power of poetry in expressing beauty, emotion, and universal ideas. National Poetry...
Read moreUsing the Terza Rima Style in Poetry
If you read and write poetry, then you must be familiar with its formalistic elements such as rhyme, meter, sound and imagery. Poems are typically written in stanza form composed of a certain number of lines that are written in a specific rhyming...
Read moreThe Great Feminist Poetry Movement
Since time immemorial, men held the sole authority when it came to the field of the arts, literature and philosophy. Back then, they could not fathom the idea of women as thinking creatures. This became the reason why all manner of knowledge and...
Read moreRabindranath Tagore’s Poetic Genius
Rabindranath Tagore aka ‘The Bard of Bengal’ is hailed as the best and most prolific writer in India. He was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, British India. As a writer, he wrote under many pen names such as Gurudev, Kabiguru, and...
Read moreAn Overview on Narrative Poetry
When the word “poetry” is mentioned what typically comes to people’s minds are those pieces of literature that resemble and sound like song lyrics. To others, what they commonly picture is the complex language of Shakespeare’s sonnets. What these...
Read moreMobile Apps to Learn Poetry
In our modern world, where the internet and mobile technology has taken over almost every aspect of human life, it only makes sense that traditional media and learning platforms also make their way into smartphones and mobile devices. The same...
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