About
What Storgy is
Storgy is a poetry knowledge engine. It connects three things that usually live in different places: 257 poets, their 2,791 poems, and a curated map of 82 themes that runs underneath them. On top of that sits a single AI tool that can take any poem you hand it and return a structured explanation.
What you’ll find here
Three interlinked sections. Each poet has a biography, the poems they’re best known for, and the themes their work tends to circle. Each poem has the full text (when public domain), an honest summary, a line-by-line gloss, and the symbols and tone that hold it together. Each theme is a short essay that points you to the poets and poems that engage it most.
The Poem Analyzer
Paste any poem at /tools/poem-analyzer/ and you’ll get a structured analysis: summary, themes, line-by-line, tone, symbols, context, and FAQ. Each result lands on a permanent URL you can bookmark or share.
How the AI explanations work
The analyses come from Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model, asked to emit a fixed JSON shape so every result has the same seven sections. The raw output is then run through a second pass with a different model to strip the stiff, boilerplate phrasing that AI writing tends to fall into. The aim is short, concrete prose that reads like a working teacher’s notes — not an essay padded out to look smart.
Why public domain
Every poem on Storgy is sourced from public-domain corpora — Project Gutenberg first, with metadata cross-checked against Wikidata. That keeps the site legally clean and lets us ship full poem texts rather than ten-line excerpts. The trade off is that you won’t find living poets here. For those, we link out where we can; the explainer still works on anything you paste in.
Who built this
Storgy is built and maintained by Nikola Gulevski. If you spot an error, want to suggest a poet or theme we’ve missed, or just have feedback, drop a note.