In addition to love poems for him and her, you’ll find sad poems alongside funny poems, as well as short poems amid excerpts ...

Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...

A dedicated feminist, she wrote this poem while living with her female lover, the architect Lota de Macedo Soares, in Brazil. Love and death are both opposites and two sides of the same coin ...

Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

Duffy uses the metaphor of an onion to describe the complexity of love in her poem 'Valentine'. "Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion." On the face of it, Carol Ann Duffy’s ...

As the world's largest multilateral financier of urban development, the World Bank works with national and local governments to build more livable, sustainable, and inclusive cities and communities.

When poet Vivian Bolan takes on the challenge of writing a poem about becoming older, we see how the memories of her childhood, her late father, and her rocky relationship with her mother have ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

In 2016, social media was awash in calls to protest the day after Donald J. Trump’s victory. On Wednesday, many said it ...