This exploration of famous Black poems and their writers highlights the enduring power of poetry to capture the human ...

Researchers Investigate What Makes a Poem Popular A recent study found that vividness of imagery best predicted a poem’s aesthetic appeal ...

Noyes uses clever and vivid imagery to tell the story of the two lovers, evoking so much emotion in the reader, and The Highwayman remains one of my favourite poems ever.

Afterwards, they answered questions about the vividness of the poems' imagery and how much they enjoyed the poems or found them aesthetically pleasing.

The result showed that vividness of mental imagery in the poems was by far the best predictor of aesthetic appeal and poems which evoked greater imagery were found to be more pleasing.

It can be hard to know exactly what to say to someone you care about but, thankfully, the great poets have written plenty of beautiful lines about love. For Valentine's Day 2021, here's our ...