Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

Write down your initial expectations and impressions based on the title, then make changes as you come back to the title during and after your analysis ... literary or historical references in poems.

This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Langston Hughes, one of the most significant figures in American literature ... and enduring spirit of black people. Analysis: In this poem, Hughes uses rivers as metaphors ...