By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Knight’s Tale’ is the first tale told in Geoffrey Chaucer’s long work The Canterbury Tales. Following his introduction in the General Prologue, the Knight proceeds to tell this tale of romantic rivalry between two friends – a story which would later inspire a […]
Tag: Poems
10 of the Best Poems about Hobbies and Activities
In this post, we introduce ten of the greatest poems about various hobbies, pastimes, and interests: everything from reading to walking to fishing to sports and games. But obviously ‘activities’ is quite a broad term, so which great poems about hobbies and activities have we missed off this list?
10 of the Best Poems to Celebrate an Engagement
Previously, we offered our pick of the best not-cheesy wedding poems, but what about poems to celebrate an engagement to be married? The following poems are all appropriate for such an occasion, whether it’s for someone proposing to a loved one, or friends and family searching for the right quotation […]
10 of the Best Experimental Poems Everyone Should Read
Poets, especially since the beginning of the twentieth century, have often sought increasingly new and radical ways of writing about the world. Modernists, Futurists, and postmodernists (among other schools and movements) have played around with language and form to create daringly original experimental works of poetry.
10 of the Best Poems about Anxiety
Anxiety can affect us in different ways, so it should come as little surprise that poets have represented, expressed, and depicted anxiety and anxious states in a myriad fashions. In the following pick of the best poems about suffering from anxiety, we find modernists using the dramatic monologue form to […]