What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

Poems can contain a number of stanzas. They are separated by missing a line. Like all poems, stanzas can rhyme, but they do not have to. A narrative poem tells a story, but it has rhythm ...

Most of Dickinson’s poems are only two or three stanzas long. So it is unusual that “I cannot live with You” stretches to 12 stanzas. (Read it here.) It begins baldly: To announce “I ...

In honor of Black History Month, The Crimson’s Arts Board reflected on their favorite poems written by Black authors, and ...

The poems taken in their entirety are a surprising ... Slow, serene movement gives enduring beauty to these elegiac stanzas:-- Let down the bars, O Death! The tired flocks come in Whose bleating ...

The best-written poems capture emotions ... Lines are grouped into stanzas, or verses, and poets make deliberate decisions about word choices, and the accuracy and economy of the language.

Three poems stand out from the hundreds she has written ... using rhyme to employ a musicality in her stanzas that is almost constant throughout her work. Finally, the closing lines, “And ...

The poems are bound to surprise. They’re lyrical ... such as The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem. In 15 lines unbroken by stanzas, Arendt describes Berlin’s U-Bahn trains: “Narrow ...