The best way to think of tone in a poem is to imagine how it would be spoken and what mood you think the speaker would be in. There will be clues to the tone not just in the language but in the ...

“What is poetry? Why, sir,” roared Dr. Johnson to his ever-attentive Boswell, “we all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is . . . It is much easier to say what it is not.” Poetry ...

In this exercise, you will use the knowledge you have gained from class discussions about poetic language and poetic structure to move beyond our classwork and interpret poems you have not seen before ...

In Jeffrey Siegel’s next program of Keyboard Conversations®, Poetic Tone Pictures features deeply affecting music by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and Ravel, inspired by words and visions. Siegel has ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The best part of two years without concerts kept musicians at home and gave them time to explore beyond their ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brought Dvorak’s sprawling 1889 rarity to New York with committed playing and interpretive wisdom. By ...