Willa Cather’s poem argues that spring is more melancholy than winter. With its frailty, spring tells us that it must pass, while winter, with its hardness, tells us that the origin of beauty is in ...

“How like a winter hath my absence been,” says the speaker in the first line. It’s a strange way to put things: generally you’d imagine yourself as the fixed point of the relational compass, present ...

Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote the collection, “Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande” in 2004 after living on the banks of that river. Every morning, he ran through snow, rain and mud in a ritual that ...

“Those Winter Sundays” is a poem that captures in 14 lines the enormous struggle against the cold, write Patrick B. Whalen.(STEVEN KRIEMADIS / Getty Images/iStockphoto) Winter in Detroit is a ...

Perhaps it's the crisp winter air. Maybe it's the anticipation of Christmas or the deluge of holiday spirit.Whatever the reason, it's clear that readers can't get enough of the annual Holiday ...

Whittier’s new poem is of a sunlit, hard-frozen, snowy winter morning, − a walk that the poet takes the reader from his books into the woods, with a little gleam or dream of spring falling in ...

About this poem "Sounds of the Winter" was published in the "2nd Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy" section in Walt Whitman's last edition of "Leaves of Grass" (1891-1892).

Shania Twain is a proud Canadian, even saying that her sisters and her had a 'beautifully written' poem to get them through the Ontario winter.

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

Armstrong senior wins national spoken word champion for poem on Minnesota winter GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses ...