Literary discourse is usually distinguished from conventional expressions of speech and writing. Whether poetry is intuitive or not is a debatable issue. However, there’s no doubt that when poets are ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

Stopped—struck—my ticking—through—" Sounds like a song, doesn’t it? The alliteration of the /s/ sound in the last line, along with the rhyming of ‘do’ with ‘through’ is satisfying. It is beautiful, ...

Those so-called “cultured” types sure love to brag about their love of poetry. We aren’t sure how they get their fix of literary arts. But we like to imagine that they sport berets, hang around coffee ...

You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem. For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you ...

In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts, together with the Poetry Foundation, established Poetry Out Loud, a program intended to encourage “the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through ...