The poem runs through four stanzas, though the first is the most memorable. The little star epitomises the Socratic wonder of every child at the mystery of the universe. The poem has lent itself ...

He had become therefore what he calls himself in the poem's opening stanza, ‘a sixty-year-old smiling public man’. Yeats took his duties as a senator seriously; and they included sitting on a ...

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The Capital City of Malawi, Lilongwe has been painted the Sky Blue colour as the Central Bankers have ...

Patriotic poet Katharine Lee Bates was born and raised on Cape Cod, a narrow wisp of seaside sand where the only elevation comes from dunes that shift with wind and tide. Later a professor at ...

"When we left Colorado Springs, the four stanzas were penciled in my notebook, together with other memoranda, in verse and prose, of the trip." Originally titled "Pike’s Peak," her poem was ...

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of one of the most popular poems in the English language, 'If–', has long captured the interest of poetry lovers.

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Actors Shannon Flynn and Richard Wisker talk about using emotive language, the difference between facts and opinions, and how to use evidence to support persuasive writing. Shannon demonstrates ...

“I don’t know what it means for a species, a people, to grow older. If we are lucky enough to age, perhaps it means we see the line that leads out of our own existence growing clearer. The grief of ...

Ella Higginson was born around 1862 in Council Grove, Kansas. A poet as well as a novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer, Higginson was the author of the poetry collections The Vanishing ...