Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

(Medical Xpress) -- Research from the Universities of Reading and Oxford suggests that learning poems by heart makes people feel better and strengthens identity. Dr Clare Rathbone, of the University ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. During the past couple of months, I have found that at random times of the day, a line of poetry will drop into my ...

PM Narendra Modi also lashed out against the Congress over the deletion of stanzas from the original poem during a Friday speech on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram' ...

In the Hues Of The Violet Garden: Irodori Festival we have a number of events, which include multiple parts of True Tales Of The Violet Garden. In each act of True Tales Of The Violet Garden, there ...

On November 7, 1875, Bengali author Bankim Chandra Chatterjee one of India's most influential 19th century thinkers wrote the ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...