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88Just This Side of Death: An Interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnet #73
William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 reminds us of the inevitability and permanence of death and of how that reality should compel us to love fiercely before our time is over. Shakespeare expertly employs...
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75Examples of Onomatopoeia Poetry
onomatopoeia is pronounced (on-o-mat-o-pe'-a) Function: noun 1 : the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2 : the use of words whose sound...
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75How to be A Sonneteer!
While no one knows for sure what the most famous sonneteer looked like, many believe this photograph could be an actual photograph of the most famous sonneteer in his/her younger years. It is suggested that...
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82How to Write a Sonnet
Sonnets are fourteen lined poems with a strict rhyme scheme. Depending on whether the sonnet is an Italian sonnet or an English, or Shakespearean, sonnet, the rhyme scheme will vary just a little. You may,...
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57A Sonnet Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Death closes all: but something ere the end, / Some work of noble note, may yet be done. --Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson ...
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85Places To Publish Your Poetry
Where can you go to get your poetry published? Places To Sell Your Poetry is dedicated to those who are seeking homes for their work. Poetry publishing may seem harder than it used to be, but it is still possible. Links and resources included.
63 comments79100 Word Examples of Onomatopoeia
In the Bat Man movies and TV series, when Robin and Bat Man would fight their enemies, onomatopoeia words would be used to express their actions. Words like: KABOOM, BANG, POW, WHACK, WHAM, BOINK, POP......
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69Anthem for Doomed Youth
Anthem For Doomed Youth "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries...
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80How to Write a Shakespearean Sonnet
How to write a Shakespearean (English-style) sonnet. I describe the form, analyze one of Shakespeare's sonnets as an example, and suggest a writing process.
3 comments66The Conservative Rebellion
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.--GEN 1:1 Nature, bright effluence of the One Supreme! / O how connected is thy wondrous frame! --Henry Brook (1706-1783), Universal Beauty, Book II...
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