Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

I Met My Younger Self For Coffee is a poem by Jennae Cecelia that inspired a TikTok trend in February 2025. Cecelia released ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

For example, in the poem, “Empty Bottle”, the poet asks a little girl the reason for preserving an empty bottle of perfume. The girl laughs and says, Till a few days ago.’ ‘Now he’s a ...

Some poems evoke the drama of famous paintings or the frozen beauty of Grecian urns. This one dwells on a more private image ... He is beholding his earlier self being held by his daughter ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Muscles rippling, Irish actor Paul Mescal charges across cinema screens in the film Gladiator II, roaring ...