Roman Mythology
Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, is never named in this poem—not even once. So why are we insisting that the poem is somehow about her? Well, check out all of the allusions to things that se...
Alliteration
Back in the olden days, bards used to roam from town to town, singing songs to general public. You could think of them as the movie theaters of their time. Lots of the poems that we read on the pag...
Inverted Syntax
Want to come up with a good way to make your verse seem like it's drawn from antiquity (like, say, Roman antiquity) when it's also firmly lodged in the twentieth century? One way to do it is to pla...