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 ...
Counterview

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 ...
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 ...
Times Higher Education

Creating poetry from data to aid analysis

Poetry is an incredibly versatile medium for anybody working with qualitative data sets to consider adding to their toolkit. As well as helping solve problems, poetry can also be used as a lens ...
The Conversation

Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection

Veronica Alfano does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Atlantic

Reading a Poem: 20 Strategies

At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...