What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

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Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Because this poem is multi-layered and complex, it is best suited for readers who enjoy mentally unpacking layers of symbolism and interpreting the themes in ways that feel authentic to their ...

Let's begin with a poem about poetry itself. In Words, written in 1909, Yeats acknowledged that some of his best writing was inspired by (often self-inflicted) emotional turmoil, exploring how ...

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Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Tove Ditlevsen only became well-known to Anglophone readers with the translation of her memoirs in 2021 Credit: Alamy Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry.