No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser. They just compete for the sake of enjoyment but I’m among them who wants to ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

If there was anything Shakespeare could do well, it was to write immortal literature, and this lesser-known poem is one example. Shakespeare used allegory and elegy to describe complex themes ...

Here are some questions to help you think about the themes, ideas and attitudes of two poems when making a comparison: Two poems that deal with the theme of family relationships are Walking Away ...

At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and reassertion of one of humankind’s oldest forms of ...