For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?

An impressively large public braved some unusually cold weather in the middle of March to attend this year’s Arab History ...

In his quest for perfection, Mari Selvaraj is part of a triumvirate of film directors making Dalit-themed films who have ...

ShareAs today’s world embraces tech in solving most lingering industry-related issues, we are enjoined to devote a second of our time to the unique role of literature, particularly poetry, in ...

My use of irony is not a sign of disrespect to the families of the ... In her speech, the minister said many things, and also recited the lyrics from the poem “In Silence” by Aco Šopov. Yes, indeed, ...

Translated by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker, the novel is ostensibly about a series of murders of young men in an unnamed Mexican city, but it often seems more concerned with the study of poetry and ...

“Spring Pools” is an example of a poem that seems ... through logical fulfillment or irony, to the texture of the poem, and the extent to which the statement is in its own right serious ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental ...

The perverse incongruity of linking haughtiness and savagery is an example ... irony is an insidious way of mediating his savagery, indeed, a form of intellectual savagery. Ezra Pound admired "the ...

Share This poem, Bloom, is a masterful blend of vivid imagery, metaphor, and emotional depth, rooted in the poetic traditions ...