“Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” Vocabulary Select any word below to get its definition in the context of the poem. The words are listed in the order in which they appear in the poem. Fortune Beweep
To make matters even more complicated, Shelley arranges each section of the poem into fourteen lines—each section is in terza rima and is a sonnet, albeit an unusual and irregular sonnet. As with most English sonnets, the poem is written in iambic pentameter, but it takes a while to estab...
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956) is the best-known poem produced by the literary movement called the Beat Generation—not to mention one of the most controversial and influential poems of the 20th century. Dedicated to Ginsberg's friend Carl Solomon, who had been confined to a psychiatric insti...
The poem doesn't use any conventional forms (for example, it's not a sonnet or villanelle), but develops organically, with a mixture of line lengths. The last, single-line stanza is comprised of only four words, providing a dramatic punch to its double-meaning ending. Meter The poem is...