What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer.

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...
Counterview

Margins of modernity: A postcolonial analysis of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem 'That Old Muslim'

Noted Hindi poet Ashok Vajpeyi’s poem “That Old Muslim” occupies a singular place in contemporary Hindi poetry for its ...
BBC

English Literature KS3 / GCSE: Simon Armitage on his poem 'Give'

SIMON:I wrote this poem in the early nineties. It's interesting to write about homelessness because it's a real visible manifestation of something that's not working properly in society. SIMON:These ...
The New York Times

Poem: The Body’s Uncontested Need to Devour: An Explanation

We stayed inside so long. The moss is calling us. The leaves, the little flickers — bow down. Major Jackson’s mesmerizing fifth collection, “The Absurd Man,” conveys profound physical presences: ...