Ostrovsky loathed tendentious drama and shied didacticism. Critics often faulted King's fiction for its sentimentality and didacticism. Likewise, irony, sentimentality, black humor, and didacticism, are prevalent throughout the novel. Likewise, irony, sentimentality, black humor, and didacticism are prevalent throughout the work. Likewise, irony, sentimentality, black humor, and didacticism, are prevalent throughout the work. Poe wrote the poem as a narrative, without intentional allegory or didacticism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories&colon; he disagreed with didacticism and allegory. His early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes. Edgar Allan Poe called didacticism the worst of "heresies" in his essay "The Poetic Principle". Her poetry resonates with feminism and the world of nature without any trace of didacticism. Beginning in the 1950s, critics have focused on symbolism and didacticism. It was the period of reformist didacticism and a great intellectual ferment. His most common complaint is against didacticism, which he calls a "heresy". The related term "didacticism" defines an artistic philosophy of education. It also had a strong element of didacticism.