Ah, the word gothic. It has so many meanings. More than I had realized as a matter of fact, but the one at issue is: “Noting or pertaining to a style of literature characterized by a gloomy setting, grotesque, mysterious, or violent events, and an atmosphere of degeneration and decay.”
Not really suitable for spring (which [...]
Aside from Christine’s excellent post on Shakespearean Sonnets, there hasn’t been much written here about metrically formal poetry. There are a couple of reasons, one being that I wanted to write a piece on meter before I started writing about verse forms that use it, and another is that I rarely write in meter. It’s [...]
Note from the management: This post of Christine’s was supposed to run next week! But it is such a lovely one, we’ll leave it up (and probably re-issue it again next Thursday, too, because Christine has a special prompt for next week that ties to ekprhrastic poetry!) But don’t miss Juliet’s book review in your [...]
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