Stanza Forms
Like any art form, poetry combines creativity and technique to produce realised concepts within a particular medium. One technique used to achieve a poet's ideas is the use of stanzas. Stanzas are bot...
A Dog has Died
A Dog has Died by Pablo Neruda is a heart-wrenching eulogy for the poet’s much-loved, deceased dog that also explores the dog’s personality and interactions with the speaker. It was written in Spanish...
Trophic Cascade
Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy is a poem that explores the ecological concept of a trophic cascade, where changes in one level of a food chain can profoundly affect an entire ecosystem. The poem i...
A Consumer’s Report
A Consumer's Report by Peter Porter is a satirical critique of consumerism and commodification in modern society. It reflects on excessive materialism, loss of human connection, and the impact of cons...
The Arrow and the Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an American poet known for his lyrical and introspective works. The Arrow and the Song is a beautiful poem about the contrast between an "arrow" and a "song". This metaph...
Shelley Calls for Action
Percy Bysshe Shelley once gave up sugar in tea. It was not because he was diabetic, but for a cause. He not only gave up himself but also spearheaded a campaign that resulted in up to 4,00,000 Britons...
Journey to the Interior
Margaret Eleanor Atwood's Journey to the Interior is a metaphysical poem with the recurring motif of ‘journey’ that Atwood explores in other works like Surfacing. It portrays an inward journey describ...
General’s ‘Powerful’ Tank
General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, found in his Svendborg Poems collection, written while he was in Danish exile from Nazi Germany. The poem is also known as General...