Poetry

The French Revolution was a period of radical political and social uprisings that not only changed the course of history in France but also ...

Robert Frost was a celebrated American poet who was born in the latter part of the 1800s and died in the 1960s. He became ...

Approximately twenty years has passed since Susan Vaughan Smith was convicted to life imprisonment for the deceitful and disturbingly heinous crime of murdering her ...

The lyrical poem We Are Seven by William Wordsworth was a controversial poem published as part of a collection in 1798.  The poem tells ...

The American physician and poet William Carlos Williams was a champion of Americana, choosing common and pastoral objects and illuminating their complexity through his ...

William Wadsworth, author of “We Are Seven”, published in 1798, was inspired by a girl the poet met in his travels. In the poem, ...

The main theme of Edward Hirsch’s poem “Fast Break” is the importance of teamwork. Hirsch relates this theme to the reader through a colorful ...

Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley’s poem “The Boxer” tells the story of a down-and-out boy who wanders through the world looking for a place ...

Life and death are symbiotic entities.  Each relies on the other for its existence.  In the poem “The Pardon” by Richard Wilbur, sensory description ...

The theme of death and impermanence has permeated literature for millennia. Poets Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas,  like countless poets before and after them, ...