Purāṇa" (The Sorrowful Chronicle) achieves something rare in contemporary poetry: it transforms the seemingly simple ...

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As much as we profess to favor Originality in art, for me at least, it's more accurate to say that we want Originality to be refashioned out of something real -- and that very act of refashioning is ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

With nods to both Emily Dickinson and the hymns of Isaac Watts, this finds a mineral solidity in its metaphors of life and death Death makes dead metaphor revive Death makes dead metaphor revive, Turn ...

Poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith. Credit: Shawn Miller/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Read excerpts of Tracy K. Smith’s poems, “My God, It’s Full of Stars” and “Watershed.” Read excerpts of Rafael ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From ...