A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an ...

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with thestudy of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sensethat more or less coincides with the traditional notion ...

One answer is to say that poetic forms offer the poet a pre-­existing structure on which to hang their thoughts, the way an ­arbour offers a climbing rose its shape. These structures have proven their ...