Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Avian palaeontologist Dr Julian Hume is rediscovering the dodo by introducing old bones to new technology. Julian explains what went wrong for the dodo, why artists exaggerate and which other ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Scientists are piecing together clues about the life of the dodo, hundreds of years after the flightless bird was driven to extinction. Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird ...

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 ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

When you remember a poem, you learn it so well that you can say it out loud perfectly. There are ways you can remember a poem more easily. Think about the story that the poem tells. You got it!

Two male Rodrigues solitaires fight over a female in the background using club-like wings The extinct Dodo had a little-known relative on another island. This fascinating bird ultimately suffered ...

A roundup of this week’s news stories, including drunk hornets, Trump working at McDonald’s and time limits on hugging at a ...

But Ben Lamm, the company’s chief executive, said it is “highly likely” the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger could potentially pip the mammoth – which went extinct around 4,000 years ago ...