Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like “Mary Jane,” playing through ...

The Shiv Tandav Stotram is an ancient Sanskrit poem that captures the cosmic dance performed by Lord Shiva. The hymn was composed by demon King Ravana. In more common parlance, Lord Shiv is said ...

But I also like the tongue-in-cheek aggressiveness of it, because it sets a tone for the whole book that lets you know that this isn’t going to be a demure book. People often assume poetry books ...

There's a vibe, a tone, an honesty that the interviewee hits ... as they reflected on the "You Are Here" collection and the poems they wrote for it on pretty short notice. "I don't write nature ...

In the blink of an eye the land bloomed with a spectrum of brilliant color where before it was all greens and earth tones. It was the sudden awakening of a new aesthetic; our “shrew ...

In the clip above, Stephen Colbert responds to U.S. Republican Randy Weber's poem praising Elon Musk with ... "With skin the tone of day-old sushi / He's super dumb, and uber douchey." ...

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature to your PC: AI-powered editing to the Windows 11 Notepad app, called Rewrite. In November, Microsoft began testing the addition of AI rewrite ...

With these sources in mind, we read the poem’s tone and aims differently: Frost may be mocking Thomas’s indecisiveness, but he is also legitimating the dilemma of choice. The poem is skeptical ...

He also used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending the piece a dark and melancholic tone. Still, the poem has influenced many modern works, including Vladimir ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where John Wilson goes, adventurous listeners would do well to follow. Showing an eclectic taste, Wilson ...

But now I catch the tone Of leaves. No birds can touch down in the trees Without my seeing them. I count the bees. When you are memorizing a poem, a similar kind of noticing begins at the level of ...

The tone was set early. It was afternoon at the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon, the 50th since the event’s debut in 1974. After an hour and a half or so of poems, the day’s topic ...