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 Early Bird Books ☰ HOME CULTURE The 36 Most Famous Poems Ever Written in the English Language “To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” —Robert Graves By Kaytie Norman & Serah-Marie Maharaj Published Jan 22, 2021 Photo Credit: Álvaro Serrano / Unsplash The inauguration of President Joe Biden included a somewhat uncommon performance: a poetry reading. Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, became the youngest poet in recent memory to read at a presidential inauguration.  Only four presidents have chosen to include poets in their inaugural ceremonies, making 22-year-old Gorman the sixth poet to perform at one. Her performance stole the show—and got us thinking about all the poetry that has defined our lives. Below, we’ve compiled a list of 38 famous poems in the English language. Read on and relive the words that moved us the most. Related: 11 Poetry Books That Even Non-Poetry Readers Will Enjoy  1. The Raven  by Edgar Allen Poe Deep into th...

 Interesting Literature 10 of the Best Poems about Places interestingliterature interestingliterature 11 months ago Poets have often paid tribute to particular locations in their poetry, writing paeans to beautiful landscapes, bustling cities, or areas of historical or personal significance. Below, we introduce ten of our favourite poems about places of various kinds, in Britain, America, and elsewhere. Anonymous, ‘The Cries of London’. The author of this seventeenth-century poem about the shouts and cries that could be heard in London streets (especially at one of the city’s markets) has been lost in the mists of time. But really, the poem belongs to the people of London, whose voices can be hard in its lines: ‘Here’s fine rosemary, sage and thyme. / Come buy my ground ivy.’ As the poet declares: ‘Let none despise the merry, merry cries / Of famous London-town!’ William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’. Although this poem is actually titled ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abb...

   Mobile Logo  reflective poems POETRY 3 POEMS TO HELP YOU REFLECT ON THE PAST by Raquel Dionísio Abrantes March 1, 2020 12.31k Reflection is essential in everyone’s life. It is an inner action that helps us analyze our own existence. However, introspection can be harsh at times because it evokes memories and challenging moments. So, what better way to reflect than with poetry? Make yourself comfortable, grab your favorite beverage, and reflect on these poems.     “I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER” BY THOMAS HOODS   I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!      Childhood is a very crucial time, and in this first stanza, Hoods recalls his infancy home and brings us on his nostalgic voyage. He is held in the present, daydreaming about the past. The last two lines sh...

  SUBSCRIBE SIGN IN 30 Beautiful Love Poems Begging to Be Shared We're all heart eyes for these romantic verses. By Elena Nicolaou  Jan 11, 2021 "I love you" writing and pink typewriter.NISERINGETTY IMAGES Turn on the radio at any given moment, and chances are you'll hear a love song. In the pages of poetry books, a fixation on love is just as prevalent. We humans love love—and poets have spent centuries coming up with ways to express all of its forms in movies, literature, and beyond. If you're in search of a love poem for the special person in your life (your husband, or wife, perhaps), your only challenge is volume. There are simply so many excellent options, from famous romantic poems you've likely heard before (think: the work of e.e. cummings) and beautiful modern options you may not have (like "Poem to First Love" by Matthew Yeager). And, since Valentine's Day is around the corner, and coming up with the right words to fill a card or coupl...

  ☰ Cinema ‘Innale’ to ‘The Great Indian Kitchen': How couple photos are used in Malayalam films S Harikrishnan explores the relationship between photography and cinema in Malayalam movies especially with respect to wedding and couple photographs and how they are used to add layers to the story. S Harikrishnan Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - 12:04             Scene from 'The Great Indian Kitchen' Between cinema and photography, Roland Barthes famously chose “Photography  in opposition  to the Cinema, from which [he] nonetheless failed to separate it”. To Barthes, this was to do with the  temporal distinction  between photography and cinema. With the former, a spectator has control over time and circumstance, while in film, this power is ceded to the author. Two years after Barthes’  Camera Lucida  was published, Agnès Varda made  Ulysse  (1983), a documentary where she retraced a photograph she took thre...