These aren’t just any poems either—they’re some of the most famous and influential lines ever written in the history of the literary form. With these relatively short poems, you’ll ...

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 ...

Famous black poets who wrote poems about black history ... between the "self-self" and the "historical self," blurring the lines between the personal and the political. In Citizen: An American ...

Breaking the poem into two separate events helps to increase the drama. The final word on each line within a stanza rhymes: hands/lands/stands and crawls/walls/falls. A rhyme scheme of AAA BBB.

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...