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...
Poetry: Subjective and Objective
Poetry can be broadly categorised into two types: subjective and objective. They are two distinct approaches to poetic expression that differ in their focus, perspective, and emotional engagement.Su...
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is the British writer Thomas Gray's most famous poem, first published in 1751. It mourns the lives of the obscure and forgotten populace of a rural village, whose...
Not My Best Side
Not My Best Side by U A Fanthorpe is a poem that humorously reinterprets the classical legend of Saint George and the Dragon by giving a voice to each of the three main characters depicted in Paolo Uc...
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Macavity: The Mystery Cat is a poem by T S Eliot that is part of his collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, a collection of feline-centered poems published in 1939. These poems later became t...
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
The Circus Animal's Desertion is a poem by William Butler Yeats, published in 1939 as part of his final poetry collection, The Winding Stair and Other Poems. It is often seen as Yeats's reflection on ...
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...