Early critics of the quatrain poems thought them novel but “fatally impoverished of subject matter,” or fit only for “readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium” (Brooker 21, 47). Eliot was ...

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The poem is about a meadow “just this side of heaven” where pets—restored to full health, of course—would play together in the sunshine while waiting for their owners to join them ...

So in this poem, it is very architectural. Each verse is a quatrain, a fairly controlled syllable count going on. It looks orderly, and it looks structured. SIMON ARMITAGE:'And people like us at ...

From animals and family life to goofy people and more, these funny poems are guaranteed to make you laugh! Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from ...

My mother always kept a copy of Ramcharitmanas in her prayer corner. We would listen wide-eyed to her recitation of the ...

Sure, you could get him the usual fare like a tie, golf gear, or a beer brewing kit, but what if you also made him a card that included a tear-jerking Father’s Day poem? It’s admittedly tough ...

The issue in each of these editions has been: how do we read the Sonnets? What is the most significant unit of meaning – the sequence, the individual poem, the quatrain, the sentence, or the word? Do ...

Learn about antithesis and how Shakespeare uses it in Act 3, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet. The Artistic Director of the RSC, ...

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