My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose
No, that's not a typo. In honor of Robert Burns' birthday, I spelled love as he did in his 1794 poem. Robert Burns was born January 25,...
Poetry Month: Let's End with Favorites
I can recite my most un-favorite poem. It only takes a second, because it's really short. It is by William Carlos Willams, titled "The...
The Famous Bards Poetry 3C
As we discussed in Poetry 3C, a poet laureate is a nation’s official poet. He or she is responsible helping the people love and...
The Famous Bards Poetry 3B
Alfred, Lord Tennyson served as Great Britain’s poet laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. Born in 1809, he was the son of a...
The Famous Bards Poetry 3A
We call William Shakespeare “The Bard,” capital T, capital B. But a bard is simply someone who sang poetry, a word we may have been more...
Music to Our Days Poetry #2
Reading poetry might be difficult, but we listen to poetry every day, in the form of music. Country music is known for its ballads....
The Littlest Rhymes Poetry #1
We think poetry is difficult to read and difficult to understand. But we’ve been exposed to poetry from our very first year of life....
