Rupture in poetry refers to a significant break, discontinuity, or violent interruption in the flow of syntax, imagery, logic, or form that creates emphasis through disruption. Unlike subtle breaks or pauses, ruptures represent decisive fractures that force attention to the moment of discontinuity itself. These breaks can signify psychological crisis, linguistic failure, structural violence, or thematic transformation, making discontinuity meaningful rather than accidental. Ruptures engage readers in negotiating severe gaps, potentially generating meaning through the very act of severance and the reader's response to fragmentation.

Rupture signifies a deliberate break in form, tone, or logic—used to convey trauma, revelation, or ideological disruption; common in modernist and avant-garde poetry.