And a boxer can certainly sting. No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam Plunkett writes in ...

Grace Nichols reads 'Be a Butterfly' and recalls some memories from her childhood.

responses to other poems. He wrote “My Butterfly,” the first poem he ever published, after reading Francis Thompson’s “The Hound of Heaven.” “As ‘The Hound of Heaven’ inverts man ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly called The Independent. “On reading ‘My Butterfly,’ ” Adam ...