Layers of meaning. Poems without a clear-cut idea offer us multiple layers of meaning, and as we grow and mature in our wisdom and experience we can always discover deeper truths in them. As an ...

The True Meaning Behind This Poem Will Make Your Heart Soar. By Ann-Marie Alcántara. Updated on Feb 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM. Twitter ... The poem has become extremely popular, ...

Gibson, who died this week, valued live performance and emotionally resonant language.

It can seem sometimes now, though, that most poems need to be translated to us by a critic or a teacher. Picked apart and explained to us so that we can understand its deeper meaning.

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

These women have informed Gorman's poems and whose shoulders she stands on. And Gorman knows this. "I repeat a mantra to myself: 'I am the daughter of Black writers. ... Many sisters hope this new and ...

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - The story behind 'The New Colossus' poem on the Statue of Liberty and how it became a symbol of immigration ...

So is the poem written by Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, which was placed on the statue in 1903. ... In fact, one could argue that this meaning has been completely lost to time.

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and teacher born in Guelph, Ont. – to write his memorial poem In Flanders ...

"Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join together to ring in the new year, but experts note the tune has a long history that didn’t originate in America.