enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Igor's_Campaign

    The title is occasionally translated as The Tale of the Campaign of Igor, The Song of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of the Host of Igor, and The Lay of the Warfare Waged by Igor. The poem gives an account of a failed raid of Igor Svyatoslavich (d. 1202) against the Polovtsians of the Don River region.

  3. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_literary_terms

    In Japanese poetry, a tanka where the upper part is composed by one poet and the lower part by another. [56] techne telestich A poem or other form of writing in which the last letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. [57] tenor tercet terza rima tetrameter tetrastich ...

  4. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poetry_terms

    Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.

  5. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_contraction

    Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]

  6. Igor (given name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_(given_name)

    Igor (Belarusian: Ігар, romanized: Ihar; Russian: Игорь, romanized: Igor'; Serbian Cyrillic: Игор pronounced; Ukrainian: Ігор, romanized: Ihor; ) is a common East Slavic given name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, see Igor of Kiev. The name can be translated as ...

  7. English poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry

    English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser. However, the boundaries between these three groups are not always clear and an individual poet could write in more than one manner.

  8. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_analysis

    The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...

  9. Poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.