Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...

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All poems are made up of words. Poems can tell a story or be about a thought or a feeling. They can be serious or silly, but they always have to use words. A stanza is a group of two or more lines ...

Poetry is a form of writing designed to evoke emotions as you read aloud or to yourself. That sounds very complicated. Where do you start with that? How about subject? All poems need to be about ...

“A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read ...