Poetry

Throughout history, poetry has often been created to celebrate a wedding. This article will examine the ways in [blank] this has happened at different periods of time and in many widely differing societies. It will look at some examples of wedding poems from a [blank] of eras and cultures and will set them in their specific context, drawing out the particular features that [blank] that context. Other writers on this topic have tended to focus on more personal wedding poems, [blank] dedicated to the bride or the groom. Here, however, the intention is to consider poems that were written with more of a social purpose in mind.