Literary Articles

A poem in which there is one imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience. In most dramatic monologues, some attempt is made to imit...

An epic is a long narrative poem, on a grand scale, about the deeds of warriors and heroes. It is a polygonal, ‘heroc’ story incorporating...

In classical literature an elegy was any poem composed of elegiac distichs , also known as elegiacs, and the subjects were various; death,...

The term derives from the Italian sonetto, a ‘little sound’ or ‘song’. Except for the curtal sonnet the ordinary sonnet consists of fourte...

The word ballad derives from the late Latin and Italian ballare, ‘to dance’. Fundamentally a ballad is a song that tells a story and orig...

The main features are an elaborate stanza-structure, a marked formality and stateliness in tone and style (which make it ceremonious), and...

The Greeks defined a lyric as a song to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre (lyra). A song is still called a lyric (the songs in a musi...