After that ritual nitrate-laden animal sacrifice, complete with smoke ascending, the poet’s father — to whose memory ...

We meet the unnamed narrator of Mark Helprin's new novel Elegy In Blue when he’s 82-years-old. He was a man of wealth and ...

This Father’s Day poem, published in Jean Star Untermeyer’s 1918 poetry collection, Growing Pains, celebrates the change in ...

For Mother's Day, we bring to you a consideration of motherhood by a poet who's brought up two sons. Because tomorrow is Mother's Day, we bring to you today a consideration of motherhood by a poet who ...

Packing your analysis of two poems into one essay involves planning. There are different ways you could approach writing a comparative essay. These are some points to think about: ...