By the 18th century, Urdu became a well-developed language with a body of literature that consisted mainly of poetry. Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi, for example, is a long ...

Whenever I’m feeling down, I know I can find not only solace in poetry but true inspiration as well. No matter how sad I may be, I know a few Walt Whitman verses will remind me of how rare and ...

Get ready to fight back the tears—or simply give in. There’s something beautiful about sad books that make you feel like you’re holding your actual heart in your hands. Why do we read books ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

When reading poetry a reader will interpret what it means to them. Everyone's response is different. What is imagery? Learn about how writers use imagery, the impact of imagery and how it appeals ...

Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...

Often they feature scenes from movies and TV shows of men expressing emotions, accompanied by moody music and captions like: “Not sad, not happy, just empty.” “Some people would joke around ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

Olympic boxer Angela Carini apologized for not shaking her opponent's hand after the Italian quit the match less than one minute in, saying the controversy that followed "makes me sad" and that ...