For example, 'Cheese' and 'peas' are words that both have the same sound. You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds. Narrator: In order for words to ...

For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...

A New Collection' by Farrukh Dhondy will be released on 2 April on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching ...

If poetry is like a house, as Emily Dickinson once remarked, then for many students unseen poetry can often feel like groping around in a dark room. They try and struggle, to cling onto its words ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar, in a conversation with India Today, spoke about the revival of poetry through social media, and how digital platforms have made Urdu poetry accessible to a ...

Plants are everywhere. You can find them in some homes, in parks, in gardens and in the countryside. I’ve just found out that plants have three important parts. The roots, the stem and the leaves.

Digging rock from hardscaped beds, I think, is a bit like not writing poetry—like thinking about writing poetry but digging ...