Burns repeated the verses to his brother the next afternoon as he was draining a field. In the poem, Death has time to sit and gossip with a ploughman, who is on his way home from a night of ...

and the dragonfly penis is structured so that it removes any sperm present before making a new deposit. So to avoid further sex, she may fall down dead—or more precisely, she may fake death ...

This is one of Poe’s most well-rounded poems, one that examines the idea of death in a way that balances sorrow with hope and invites readers to think beyond grief and loss and instead towards ...

Poets have been writing about death since the beginning of the written word, and it’s no wonder their poems often appear at ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

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 ...

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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 ...

More than 40 years later and after spending more than two decades on death row, Williams is still writing poems to express himself. He said he has picked up the pen more often in prison than ...