“I learnt this poem by heart as a young teenager, and it has stayed with me ever since, pulling at my heart strings like no other. One of the alternative titles to the poem is Written in a ...

No matter how sad I may be ... In “Beat, Old Heart,” he urges his spirits forward in the face of life, using different metaphors that bring this poem very close to being about nature.

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Her poems address time, ritual, plagues, oracles, and beauty as the speaker takes the broken world as she finds it and courageously steps over the line between the real and the metaphorical ...

The first two great American poets were both women. Neither of them was named Emily Dickinson, who came later. And one of ...

For more audio journalism and storytelling, download New York Times Audio, a new iOS app available for news subscribers. Produced by Sara Curtis Edited by Wendy Dorr Featuring Elisabeth Egan ...

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

Marla was still typing. It was hard to overstate how attentive, professional, and educated she was—she had a master’s in ...

This week on "The Golden Bachelorette," the dates began, and Joan bonded with Chock over finding love after loss.