“The Motive for Metaphor”
By Wallace Stevens You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind moves like [...]
Notes on the Art of Poetry
by Dylan Thomas I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of [...]
My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns
Dante Di Stefano Lark of my house, keep laughing. — Miguel Hernández this little lark says hi to the rain—she [...]
I, Too
By Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen [...]
“Typers Block”
By Martin Gedge A broken thought A silent rage A loss for words A aging page A eye in mind [...]
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
By – Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the [...]
Lodged
By Robert Frost “The rain to the wind said, ‘You push and I’ll pelt.’ They so smote the garden bed [...]
Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide [...]