Among her lighter works is the poem “Thanksgiving Day,” in which she captures the joy of going to her grandfather’s house for celebrations. Through wholesome imagery and an intricate sense ...
Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1609 ... 18 to the keenly indrawn Sonnet 71, his works remain the gold standard in poetry, constantly paying homage to human emotion ...
Find us farther than to-day. In the opening to “A Psalm of ... it’s also one of the most famous works of poetry. In fact, a ...
The perfect antidote to a long day in the office ... From modern poetry to romantic poetry, and poems about heartbreak, it features works by Syliva Plath, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Lewis ...
Gilbert Burns in his edition of his brother's poetry cast doubt on the authenticity of this poem but the renowned Burns scholar James Kinsley later proved that it was indeed written by Burns.
His epic poem, “Metamorphoses,” combines myth and history to tell the story of the Roman world, from its earliest days to the reign of Tiberius and is one of the most important works of Roman ...
This arrangement may have been made as early as 1789, but the poem was not evidently composed until the autumn or winter of 1790. In her memoirs, Mrs. Jean Burns recalls the autumnal day when her ...
First we will start from the land of five rivers, Punjab, where Pakistan’s visionary, Allama Iqbal, emerged as a shining star ...
“I was interested in making a poem more of a communal process,” Pruitt-Gaines said. At Southeast Community Day, Pruitt-Gaines ...
During this gathering, they read aloud some of his works and poetry. One poem ... However, they initially got the date wrong, meeting four days after his actual birth. It wasn't until the ...
Solving Sacramento When Andru Defeye became Sacramento’s Poet Laureate in February 2020, he hadn’t yet heard of Sacramento ...
The enigmatic installation artist shares the thinking behind her minimal yet profound meditations on human existence ...