The Language of Poetry – NDLA
The Language of Poetry Written by Carol Dwankowski The poet’s choice of words is extremely important because a lot needs to be said with few words. Language is the personal or private choice of...
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Whistles: A Letter from Benjamin Franklin
This letter from Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) to a friend, Madame Brillon, offers a glimpse of his clear, direct writing style, and demonstrates an apt use of metaphor. Passy, November 10, 1779 I received my dear friend’s two...
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launched forth filament, filament,...
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew...
