The Sun Rising is a thirty-line poem with three stanzas published in 1633 by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern. The ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
“My wife writes in the morning; I write at night. I prefer the peace and quiet of low light. But right now as I write this, I watch news of the world going to war. Peaceful weather is no more as ...
Though it doesn’t directly reference ancient Greece or its myths, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a timeless Romantic poem rooted in classical antiquity. John Keats, a leading figure of British Romanticism, ...
The Academy of American Poets presents poetry lesson plans, most of which align with Common Core State Standards, and all of which have been reviewed by our Educator in Residence with an eye toward ...