A form of communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive: There is a certain amount of didacticism that is expected in books for young people.

In early English poetic literature, and especially in the religious parts of it, there are elements of didacticism that we should be aware of.

An essay by Edgar Allan Poe argues that a poem should be written "for a poem's sake" and that the ultimate goal of art is aesthetic and not didacticism, which he called a "heresy".