“Poetics of Rhythm” – that is the title of a project currently in the starting blocks at Goethe University Frankfurt. The aim of Professor Achim Geisenhanslüke, Professor for Literary Theory and ...

Poetry is old. Really old. It came into use before written language, originally used as a means to remember history through verbal storytelling. That is why we often feel a rhythm or beat to a poem, ...

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...