Poetry might seem intimidating to study at first, but it’s like any other kind of writing that we analyse – it uses language and other techniques to create an effect for the reader and convey ...

Writing your response to a poem, or making comparisons between two poems, takes careful planning. These tips show you how to analyse exam questions, structure essays and write in an appropriate style.

MILES PARKS, HOST: April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too ...

That's why, in October 2009, Yale graduates Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory created Rap Genius, a website that allows users to analyze and annotate rap as one would poetry, and to ...

For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus.

The poem does not just explain entropy; it makes you feel it. Writing your own physics poem. To start, choose a scientific concept with a natural progression – something that grows, ...

Cambridge students were asked in an exam to write about a poem which included no words, just punctuation. How would you go about making sense of it, asks Jon Kelly. Turn over your papers, please.

How to Survive This. By Barbara Kingsolver. O misery. Imperfect universe of days stretched out ahead, the string of pearls and drops of venom on the web, losses of heart, of life and limb, news of ...