English literature

“Sprung Rhythm: When Poetry Got Tired of Marching and Started Skipping”

Hopkins, Nursery Rhymes, and the Great Metrical Rebellion ABS Believes: Poetic rhythm shouldn’t behave like a parade. It should behave like a toddler on sugar: unpredictable, adorable, and terrifyingly free. The Meter That Misbehaved There are two types of rhythm in this world: The kind that walks into a room, straightens its tie, and recites […]

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Lyric-Scroll 012 : Still I Rise: Maya Angelou’s Poetic Uppercut to Every Doubter, Downer, and Oppressor in the Room

A Poem That Walks in Rhyme, Laughs in Rebellion, and Stares You Down While Wearing Heels ABS Believes:Some poems whisper empowerment. This one struts it.If dignity were a dance move, Still I Rise would be the encore. Maya Angelou: The Voice That Didn’t Just Speak—She Rose Poet, memoirist, performer, and quiet destroyer of nonsense—Maya Angelou

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Lyric-Scroll 008: If You Can Stay Calm While Everyone Else Self-Destructs: Kipling’s Emotional Instruction Manual

Stoicism, Sweat, and One Man’s Quest to Explain Manhood in 32 Lines (Without Breathing) ABS Believes:Some poems hold your hand. This one slaps it, gives you a checklist, and walks off.“If—” is less a poem, more a poetic gym instructor yelling through rhyme. Kipling: The Poet Who Wrote Pep Talks in Pentameter Rudyard Kipling didn’t

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Lyric-Scroll 001. T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land: When Modernism Had a Meltdown in Five Acts

Poetry, Prophets, and Post-War Panic—With Bonus Footnotes Nobody Asked For ABS Believes: Some poems whisper. This one throws a shattered mirror at you and dares you to find meaning in the reflection. T.S. Eliot — The Man  Who Made Confusion Profound (From mental fog to footnotes, and still somehow Nobel-worthy) Before there were lyrics about

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