Poets & Poetry

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Free verse or metered verse? This is one of the great literary quandaries of our time. Ever since Walt

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I know nothing about being a scholar, or a professor, or even a high-brow intellectual, pipe in hand,

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Born in Guyana, South America, in 1949 to parents of mixed nationality, John Agard came to live in Britain in 1977. His poem 'Half-Caste'

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The theme of the allegorical "The Ancient Mariner" has been described as one of guilt and expiation, obliteration and regeneration

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The opening line of Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song" combines personification, metaphor and simile in a single nine-word sentence. The

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Poets & Poetry: Comparing the poetic schema of Wordsworth and Coleridge; Poetry analysis: Night, by Sappho; Poetry analysis: Day, by Sappho; Poetry analysis: Dawn, by Sappho; Comparing hip-hop to poetry; An overview on poems by John Ciardi; Idolatry in Paradise Lost, by John Milton; An overview of Hesiod's Titanomachy; Biography: William Cullen Bryant; Poetry analysis: Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman; Poetry analysis: Say Unto Brethren When They See Me Dead, by Abu Hamid el Ghazali; Poetry analysis: The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens; Evolution of sonnets as an expressive form; Poetry analysis: The Sonnet-Ballad, by Gwendolyn Brooks; Literary analysis: The Imperfect Enjoyment, by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Poetry analysis: Bonsai, by Edith L. Tiempo; Poetry analysis: Sine Qua Non, by A.E. Stallings; Biography: Adrienne Rich; Biography: Donald Hall; Poetry analysis: Nefarious War, by Li Po; Poetry: The legacy of Charles Simic; Poetry: The legacy of Elizabeth Bishop; Poetry: The legacy of Mary Oliver; Poetry: The legacy of Nikki Giovanni; Poetry: The legacy of Pablo Neruda; Poetry: The legacy of Rita Dove; Poetry: The legacy of Sharon Olds; Gary Snyder: Life and works; Kalidasa, India's Sanskrit poet; Poetry analysis: Word Without End, by Cesar Ruiz Aquino

Poets & Poetry: Does society need poets?; Which form of poetry is best for expressing passion: A sonnet or a villanelle?; Which type of sonnet is better: Italian or English?; Can 'bad' poetry have value?; Does poetry matter in the 21st century?; Is it better to write a poem based on experience or based on opinion?