People use language all the time. But what makes speech different than poetry? What properties must a group of words have in order to be called a poem? This is a question I grapple with constantly. In ...
When we think of Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), “reserved” is not generally the first modifier that springs to mind. Like the speaker in her famous Christmas poem, “In the Bleak Midwinter,” Rossetti ...
A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...
where she knew they would never look. Then one evening she returned too late to find them. She knew they had gone to carve rainbows in some higher rocks. So taller now than a clear, still night, she ...
The more a poem evokes vivid sensory imagery, the more we like it. A new study by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics shows that vivid pictorial language has the ...
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