We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

In his new collection, National Book Award winner Martín Espada uses Puerto Rico's invasive reptiles to connect the island's ...

An official journal of the College English Association, The CEA Critic publishes scholarly works that, through "close reading" methodology, examine the texts of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and ...

In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Metaphor for fog's silent arrival, in a Carl Sandburg poem, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles offer a fantastic opportunity to engage ...