In the 20th century, poets like William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost regularly used sonnets to depict a precise perspective. Yeats’ Leda and the Swan is a popular sonnet that depicts the myth of Zeus and Leda. We find the poetic form of sonnets used across languages and times.
In the late 19th century, the Limerick shaped up as a popular poetic form. Limerick is a five-line poem, usually a humorous verse. The origin of the limericks links back to the French literature in the medieval time period. Often used by playwrights, Limericks existed in the English literature …show more content…
Many other literary devices like the Cadence also came into the practice. The Cadence amends the structure of a poem in way to define the ‘fall’ or ‘rise’ in the thematical synchronisation by the use of punctuations or even vocabulary.
Another common poetic form used to connotate a concrete perspective is a Dramatic Monologue. Dramatic monologue changes the narration of the poem in order to accommodate the speech of a single person. This form of poetry was common in the 18th century and flourished through the romantic era.
Another type of poetry that developed in the 20th century is the haiku. Haiku is a direct adaptation of a Japanese practice in which poems are written in three lines; the theme associated with a typical haiku is natural aesthetical experiences.
The haiku in English got popular in the American literature. Ezra Pound, major character in the modernist movement wrote one of the first popular haiku, In a Station of the Metro.
The evolution of this poetic form gave rise to the era where short poems dominated the world of …show more content…
The interpretation of a text remains incomplete until the social aspect of the poet or the author is taken place.
While understanding the content of many poems, such thematic alignments helps in bringing out the variety in interpretation. For example, when a reader takes into account the poem,
Ulysses written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson the context from Dante’s Inferno and Homer’s Odyssey brings out the actual highlight of the protagonist characters and his choices. The same case is under analysing the technical aspect of a poem, we find a great pattern of technical alignment in the European literature. This alignment helps us understand the additional setting that the poet intended to keep with the thematic approach.
For example, the heroic couplet fits perfectly only in a certain type of poems and the modern short poetic forms brings out the best in the single event, a haiku captures the essential feature of highlight the importance of a single moment that allegorically describes abundance of meaning.
The research of how the English poetics flourished in structure and theme justifies the same fact and directly links literature as a universal body that address a massive portion of human experience and