Poets

Can creative genius become a curse? The French poet, Paul Verlaine thought so, and he proved it in 1884, by writing The Cursed Poets, an essay about the life and art of six poets (including himself) A group of artists who lived a life of torment...

The South Americans have a great literary tradition, with an interesting record of styles and influences that have helped the world to get to know more about their very unique cosmology. Written primarily in Spanish and Portuguese, they probably...

If you read and write poetry, then you must be familiar with its formalistic elements such as rhyme, meter, sound and imagery. Poems are typically written in stanza form composed of a certain number of lines that are written in a specific rhyming...

Rabindranath Tagore aka ‘The Bard of Bengal’ is hailed as the best and most prolific writer in India. He was born on May 7, 1861, in Calcutta, British India. As a writer, he wrote under many pen names such as Gurudev, Kabiguru, and...

In our modern world, where the internet and mobile technology has taken over almost every aspect of human life, it only makes sense that traditional media and learning platforms also make their way into smartphones and mobile devices. The same...

The Caribbean Caribbean poetry, often referred to as West Indian poetry, covers poetry that hails from those island regions and may take the form of either oral or written traditions and history that have been variously passed down through time...