Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean ... “the bottom of it / how I feel” but gives it to them all the same. Closely aligned to the theme of romantic ...

For kids, poems can be both intriguing and educational, helping them understand complex historical events and cultural concepts. Maya Angelou’s poems are very effective in this way because they ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of ... places (including Coca-Cola’s famous adverts), and among them in this famous poem, which many will know by its first ...

Thinking about two poems and identifying where they differ and are similar can give you a deeper appreciation and understanding of them. You should not be thinking about whether one poem is better ...

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Still other writings have yet to be translated and understood. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings, however, are poems written in Chinese, many of them made all the more impressive ...

Poetry is often associated only with sentimental, rhyming couplets, but the literary form is so much more than this cliché and dull stereotype. If you explore it properly, poetry is so much more.