Author Archives: Isabel Barratt

The power of rhyme

Rhyme is a powerful device within poetry. It impacts the way you read a poem and adds meaning behind the words a poet writes. The rhymes within a poem can show us as much about the poem as the words themselves can. There are many different types of rhyme. When most people think of rhymes, […]

Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia

Blind in the mind – what it’s like to read with Aphantasia. “I describe it thus: think about walking through your house in the middle of the night when all the lights are out. You roughly know where everything is, because you are very familiar with the space, even if you can’t see it. This […]