Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

I'm supposed to analyze this poem (Elizabeth Bishop's 'Sestina'). I've spent a few hours here pulling obscure references from the thing, and frankly I don't feel like I'm even the neighborhood of ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

Poems are commonly tested through reference-to-context questions, central idea or message, and poetic devices, while drama ...