Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over spectacle.

Kate North does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. In more ways than I can count, Shakespeare isn’t just a ...

Poetry is the music of our soul. The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, popularly known as P.B. Shelley, wrote, "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar ...

One of the most distinctive, identifiable and representative poems in Guyanese literature is “Ol Higue” by Wordsworth McAndrew. It stands out in several ways as a Guyanese poem. National literature is ...

WH Auden (1907 – 1973), whose full name is Wystan Hugh Auden, has been described as many things, including one of the great (or greatest) poets of the twentieth century, as an English, and as an ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...