Poetry can be a daunting prospect for students. The phrase “I don’t get poems!” may ricochet around the classroom as soon as you excitedly (and rather hopefully) display your favourite Rossetti on the ...

The soldiers are nameless and in many ways identical. The use of ‘somebody else’ suggests that these could be any men, as if the soldiers are as disposable as the looter they have killed. The ...

One of the most celebrated figures in American poetry, Robert Frost was the author of numerous poetry collections, including New Hampshire (Henry Holt and Company, 1923). Born in San Francisco in 1874 ...