It’s natural to feel anxious when talking about dying, especially with someone who is nearing their end of life. In many cases, it may be hard to find the right words to say. But with a few suggestions, it can be made a little easier. Here’s what to say to someone who is ...
As you can see, I can’t capture the essence of poetry any better than a dictionary. Poetry is all of these things and none of these things. There’s a magic in poetry that is difficult to describe in words, even though poetry itself often uses words to create magic. What is Poetry?
“It’s just what I asked for, but not what I want!”That was 30 years ago, and I doubt the poem was new then.Users have valuable information for us. Their satisfaction is our ultimate quality metric. But users don’t know how to design UIs, in the same way that medical patients ...
which give the poem life inside a reader’s mind. I see this poem as a rocky, oozing volcano on the verge of erupting, which is a goodmetaphorfor the overall sentiments that the poem conveys. Yet the full metaphor (of a volcano) is never explicitly stated. We get bits and pieces...
Warwick GouldPalgrave Macmillan UKGould, Warwick, 1987, "`What is the Explanation of It All?' Yeats's `Little Poem About Nothing', in The Yeats Annual, no. 5.
Will it rhyme? How do I begin? There's a lot to think about. But what if you could build poems from materials that already exist? Let's answer the question, what is found poetry, and look at some examples of how you can “find” your own poem with this method. ...
In each poem, however, Tolson, who was ethnically both African-American and native American, continued to opine about race, and about the difficulty of squaring the actual experiences of American minorities with the idea of equality promised by the American experiment. True, the form of Harlem ...
Though changes in language are often apparent in the progression of poetry, the intensity of the word “love” remains the same. If a simple “I love you” just won’t do the trick, you might try telling your sweetheart how much you love them with a poem, such as Shakespeare’s Sonnet...
When you know that the end is coming, you can only be terrified, you can only do nothing, you can only wait for death, because you have no ability to save yourself, because you are known as a time attribute and must be eliminated. ...
If you’ve written at least the first ugly draft (or TFUD asEverybody Writesauthor Ann Handley calls it), then congratulations for getting this far! Give yourself a pat on the back. Please understand that this is a real achievement ,even if you never let anyone ever see your work durin...