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Hayâlî (1500?–1557), Ottoman poet. Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: December 6 - Nicolaus Mameranus (died c. 1567), Luxembourgian soldier and Latin-language historian and poet; Erasmus Alberus, birth year uncertain (died 1553), German humanist, reformer and poet; Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (died 1580), Greek ...
Triadic-line poetry or stepped line is a long line which "unfolds into three descending and indented parts". [1] Created by William Carlos Williams , it was his "solution to the problem of modern verse" [ 2 ] and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn .
To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.
Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. [2]
An Idyl of the South: An Epic Poem in Two Parts by Albery Allson Whitman (1901) Lahuta e Malcís by Gjergj Fishta (composed 1902–1937) Ural-batyr (Bashkirs oral tradition set in the written form by Mukhamedsha Burangulov in 1910) The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (1911) Mensagem by Fernando Pessoa (composed 1913–1934)
The dominant form of German lyric poetry in the period was the minnesang, "a love lyric based essentially on a fictitious relationship between a knight and his high-born lady". [12] Initially imitating the lyrics of the French troubadours and trouvères, minnesang soon established a distinctive tradition. [ 12 ]
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam; Sound; Spoken-word; Verbless poetry: a poem ...
Although the word for a single poetic line is verse, that term now tends to be used to signify poetic form more generally. [1] A line break is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. The process of arranging words using lines and line breaks is known as lineation, and is one of the defining features of poetry. [2]