Discover the styles and composition of the types of lyric poetry. Learn about the history and development of lyric poetry, and see some lyric poem...
In addition to styles or genres of poetry, there are also poeticforms. A form is a particular type of poem with rules for how to write it. For example, you may have heard of alimerickor ahaikuor anacrostic. These are poetic forms, and there are rules you can follow to write ...
Poetry, drama, and prose. That’s right. All the other genre types fit into one of these three categories. Students will typically encounter these narrative types of literature in English for most of what they read and write about in school. Therefore, they must be able to identify examples...
The poet who wishes to write a rhyming poem has several different sorts of rhyme from which to choose. Some are strong, some more subtle, and all can be employed as the poet sees fit. The following are some of the main types : End Rhymes Rhyming of the final words of lines in ...
The novel attempts to assume those burdens of life that have no place in the epic poem and to see man as unheroic, unredeemed, imperfect, even absurd. This is why there is room among its practitioners for writers of hardboiled detective thrillers such as the contemporary AmericanMickey Spillan...
These poems used the same styles of writing as love poetry, sometimes symbolizing the relationship between the soul and God through various romantic themes like the moth and the flame or the rose and the nightingale. Much of the mystical poetry written in the Islamic tradition was composed in ...
Structure:The structure of a poem can vary vastly – it may adhere to a specific form (like sonnets, haikus, or limericks) complete with rules regarding rhyme, meter, and stanza length, or it may be free verse, with no such rules. ...
Such early ancient Roman fiction as Petronius’ Satyricon of the 1st century ad and Lucius Apuleius’ Golden Ass of the 2nd century contain many of the popular elements that distinguish the novel from its nobler born relative the epic poem. In the fictional works, the medium is prose, the ev...
The historical background of Lu You's poem, "示儿" (To My Son), is closely tied to this tumultuous era. Lu You is lamenting the disunity caused by the North-South divide and expressing his yearning for a unified China. He encourages his son to maintain hope, and when the day of reun...
Creative nonfiction is pretty broad: it applies to anything that does not claim to be fictional (although the rise of autofiction has definitely blurred the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction). It encompasses everything from personal essays and memoirs to humor writing, and they range in len...