A Quiet Journey through Literary Depths
Prosody: The Music of Poetry — from classical meters and rhyme schemes to the liberated rhythms of modern verse. From The Professor’s Desk An Invitation into the Sound, Structure, and Subtle Science of Prosody When Language Learns to Dance “Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful,” said Rita Dove. But behind that […]
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A Poem Where Nature Rebels, the Streets Get Philosophical, and Resilience Grows Between the Cracks ABS Believes:Some flowers bloom because they’re nurtured. Others bloom because they weren’t supposed to.Concrete doesn’t scare a rose that knows what it’s worth. Tupac: The Poet Behind the Persona Before he was a rapper, icon, or revolution with a gold
A Poem Where Silence Talks Louder, Meaning Retires, and the Lines Try Not to Mean… Anything ABS Believes:Some poems don’t want to be understood. They want to stand in the corner looking timeless and mysterious.Poetry isn’t supposed to explain. It’s supposed to haunt. MacLeish: The Poet Who Gagged the Poem and Called It Art Archibald
Sylvia Plath’s Silent Psychologist Tells You the Truth You Didn’t Ask For ABS Believes:Sometimes poetry doesn’t speak. It reflects.And sometimes the scariest part of your house isn’t the attic—it’s the bathroom mirror. Welcome to the World of Reflective Horror Sylvia Plath didn’t write poems. She wrote precision instruments. And in Mirror, she gave us a
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