What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.
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Margins of modernity: A postcolonial analysis of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem 'That Old Muslim'

Noted Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem “That Old Muslim” occupies a singular place in contemporary Hindi poetry for its nuanced exploration of modern Indian social, moral, and historical structures ...
The New York Times

In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...
swoknews.com

Poetry blooms into art at LHS

Poetry has bloomed into art in Christina Bausch’s English I classes at Lawton High School.Bausch has hit upon a novel way to ...
BBC

English Literature KS3 / GCSE: Simon Armitage on his poem 'Give'

SIMON:I wrote this poem in the early nineties. It's interesting to write about homelessness because it's a real visible manifestation of something that's not working properly in society. SIMON:These ...
Slate

A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...
CBC.ca

'The matter can never be settled': The controversy over who wrote The Night Before Christmas

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, but according to lore, This beloved poem was not written by Clement Clarke Moore. At least that's the opinion of Mary Van Deusen, who claims her ...