A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking ...

NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...

A recent judgment by the Gujarat High Court quoted from Time, a song by British rock band Pink Floyd. Here are some ...

April is National Poetry Month, and locally a journal is currently seeking submissions for its first issue. Prudence Dispatch ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Democratisation of legal language should take support of pop culture to make law not only more accessible but also fun, and ...

For me, poetry brings back warm childhood memories, especially of my mother’s love. As a child, I used to complain endlessly each morning when it was time to wake up. My mother, with infinite patience ...

Instead, by using a new technique that allowed them to peer into the inner workings of a language model, they observed Claude ...

Every couplet is a complete sentence. Every five-beat line lands on a stressed, rhymed syllable. It might be relevant that the term of art for this kind of rhyme is masculine; this is a poem about ...