On the eve of our nineteenth year, the sky cracked, its molten innards sloshing to and fro, its boiling yolk slipped out as our lips cried for home. “Stand, stand, stand,” said the boy. “If ...

The sky is sick and coated like a tongue, white/green/blue, and the pelting comes, small  knocks on a great wood door. They drop one after the other, pattering steps on the stairs Oh, Hail, father ...

Sonnet 55 is a Shakespearean ode to the immortality of poetry. In this body of art, he claims that even when grand monuments eventually crumble and are forgotten, his verse will outlive them all ...

Burns sent 'Ode to Spring' to George Thomson, the editor of A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs (1793-1818), in January 1795. Burns claimed that he was challenged by an acquaintance to ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

In other words, the central ideas of each of your paragraphs, in sequence, represent an outline of your argument ... Every novel, play, and poem I read motivates me to become an English major. However ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

The memoir, an ode to self-love, is just another reason why she's the star you can't help but respect.

Payal Kapadia on identity and her brilliant film All We Imagine as Light Inside: David Lynch’s musings, Andrea Arnold on Bird, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Berger on Conclave, archive Isabelle Huppert and ...

Unlock to see our ratings and compare products side by side An evaluation of the ease of opening, closing, and loading of the piece of luggage. Attention was also focused on the function of ...