William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.
When I realized I couldn’t answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash of panic – oh, no! Not smart enough. Such a dunce. My ...
When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash of panic — oh, no! Not smart enough. Such a dunce. My ...
Like a lot of people, I was taught as a child that, after persistently parrying in conversation with an adult asking, simply, “why,” impatience might ensue, along with the clipped response, just ...
Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove,The linner and thrush say, “I love and I love!”In the winter they’re silent - the wind is so strong;What is says, I don’t know, but it sings a loud ...
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